Background
Peter Sekaer was born in 1901 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Sekaer-New-Deal-Photography/dp/8770235503/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1599660912&refinements=p_27%3APeter+Sekaer&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Peter+Sekaer
1990
https://www.amazon.com/American-Pictures-Peter-Sekaer/dp/1879886456/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Peter+Sekaer&qid=1599660813&sr=8-2
1999
(Peter Sekaer (1901-1950) emerged as an artist in the comp...)
Peter Sekaer (1901-1950) emerged as an artist in the company of Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, and Walker Evans. This book intends to show how he stepped from their benign shadows to build his own distinctive style. It is the first monograph to show the full range of his accomplishments. Sekaer's early work combines dispassionate images with others that show his concern and intuitive grasp of the human condition. Many of his most memorable photographs were made while fulfilling mundane assignments for various government agencies. Sekaer had none of the reformer's passion found in the works of Jacob Riis or Lewis Hine. His stance was more that of the artist/anthropologist, who delighted in recording the artifacts and gestures that defined American society in the 1930s.
https://www.amazon.com/Signs-Life-Peter-Sekaer/dp/3869301201/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Peter+Sekaer&qid=1599660813&sr=8-1
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Peter Sekaer was born in 1901 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter Sekaer studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City from 1929 to 1934 and photography at New York's New School in 1935.
Peter Sekaer worked for the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) and U.S. Housing Authority from 1936 to 1941 and was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1940.
His images appeared in several of their publications as well as in magazines such as U.S. Camera and Vogue. Peter Sekaer also did the still photographs for REA's film, Power and the Land, in collaboration with Joris Ivens. He edited their magazine The League in 1932-1933. The photographer produced documentary images for the U.S. government on slum clearance, electrification of rural areas, and Indian reservation life.
(Peter Sekaer (1901-1950) emerged as an artist in the comp...)
2010Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tennessee
1941Irish Channel, future site of St. Thomas housing project, St. Thomas and Felicity Streets, New Orleans
1936Cleveland, near the "Flats"
1938Pearlstine Alley, Charleston, South Carolina
1939Restaurant, South Carolina
1936Macon, Georgia
1936James A. Rourke Machine Co., Savannah, Georgia
1936Fredericksburg, Virginia
1936Anniston, Alabama
1936Election posters, 10th Avenue, New York
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Peter Sekaer studied photography with Berenice Abbott at New York's New School.
Peter Sekaer assisted Walker Evans on the project of photographing The Museum of Modern Art's African sculpture collection.
