Benedict Fernandez taught in the New School’s photography department in the 1960s. You can read more about him here.

Benedict J Fernandez's "In Opposition: Images of American Dissent in the Sixties" is a kind of pictorial primer of protest, both for and against whatever the cause-Vietnam, fair housing, white or black power , student sit ins.

With every year that passes, Berenice Abbott looks more and more like what she is-one of the great irreducible Americans and one who will be remembered as long as there is anyone around who wants to know what America stood for and what manner of people Americans were.

Twenty- Seven CORE Freedom Riders, many of them fresh from beatings with fists, boots and iron bars, stood in their cells in the Hinds County, Mississippi, jail and sang.

Multi-talented George Pitts taught photography at Parsons for two decades, from 1998 until his untimely death in 2017. He came to Parsons as the revolutionary, founding Director of Photography at Vibe magazine, where he worked from 1993 to 2004.

Bob Adelman took photography classes with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School in the 1950s and became one of the photographers regularly documenting the life of the New School in the 1970s and 1980s.

American Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was best known for her preservation of modern art and her documentation of New York’s ever-changing landscape.