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Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). The exhibit Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman will feature 700-plus archival and newly taken images. Among many iconic photographs, Beckman is known for photographing musical legends like Salt-N-Pepa and Run-DMC, and her striking approach to street photography
Girl, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2024. Photograph: Janette BeckmanThu 28 May 2026 11.00 CEST
Brothers Danny and Carlos Rosa, Puerto Rican Day parade, 43rd Street NYC, 1995
‘In the 1990s I became obsessed with wandering the ever-changing New York streets, with my Hasselblad camera,’ says Janette BeckmanPhotograph: Janette Beckman
Irish step dancers, St Patrick’s Day parade, 1996
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Winston playing the lottery, Brooklyn, 1994
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Newspaper sock, Midtown, 2025
‘I took the train to random stops. I got out in unfamiliar neighborhoods, spot someone to photograph, approach them, ask if I could take a photo’Photograph: Janette Beckman
Judah family boxers outside Gleason’s Gym, Brooklyn, 2000
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Minnie in her Easter hat, Easter Sunday, Harlem, 2015
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Robin selling the NY Post on Broad St, NYC, 1994
’People were “real” in your face, genuine. New York had “flava”, folks from all over the world, music played loud everywhere, police sirens, carhorns, crazy people’ Photograph: Janette Beckman
Brooklyn girls, 1995
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Barbershop, Brownsville, NY, 2009
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Kid with boom box, Lower East Side, 1992
‘These days I am still out on the streets documenting New York City and I teach a street portrait class at the School of Visual Arts’ Photograph: Janette Beckman
Julian & Damian, street basketball, West Village NYC 1995
Photograph: Janette Beckman
St Benedick’s Fife & Drum Corps, St Patrick’s Day parade, 1996
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Sisters, at Puerto Rican Day parade, 2017
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Gentleman on 5th Avenue, 2017
Photograph: Janette Beckman
New York Yankees World Series ticker-tape parade, 2009
Photograph: Janette Beckman
Girl, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2024
Photograph: Janette Beckman
‘Twin Towers’ AKA Ronald & Dino just got haircuts at Astor Place barbershop NYC, 1990
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