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| Edward Weston White Radish 1933 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt Prince Francesco Massimo in Palazzo Massimo, Rome with Claudia Mutio Vanutelli 1933 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt Union Station, Washington DC 1934 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt King Gustav V of Sweden 1934 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt Duomo in Milan after Snowfall 1934 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Ilse Bing Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris 1934 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Lucien Aigner Fish Market, Le Touquet 1934 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Man Ray Untitled (Mathematical Object) 1934-35 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Paul Strand New York ca. 1935 photogravure Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Berenice Abbott Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan 1935 gelatin silver print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Walker Evans Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana 1935 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Cecil Beaton Schiaparelli Evening Dresses 1936 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Weston Juniper, Tenaya Lake, Ca. 1937 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Louis Faurer Homage to Muybridge, Chestnut St., Philadelphia 1937 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| George Platt Lynes Paul Cadmus ca. 1937 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Photographer (Great Britain) Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh 1937 bromide print National Portrait Gallery, London |
Back From Vacation
"Back from vacation," the barber announces,
or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.
They are amazed to find the workaday world
still in place, their absence having slipped no cogs,
their customers having hardly missed them, and
there being so sparse an audience to tell of the wonders,
the pyramids they have seen, the silken warm seas,
the nighttimes of marimbas, the purchases achieved
in foreign languages, the beggars, the flies,
the hotel luxury, the grandeur of marble cities.
But at Customs the humdrum pressed its claims.
Gray days clicked shut around them; the yoke still fit,
warm as if never shucked. The world is so small,
the evidence says, though their hearts cry, "Not so!"
– John Updike (1992)