Porches and Stoops Photo Essay

Magnum presents portraits of the people and animals who sit on their front porches and stoops watching the world go by.

TRINIDAD, Cuba—A work horse is kept on a family's porch overnight, 1998.
© David Alan Harvey / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—An American Legion parade, 1947.
© Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos

LAMBTON COUNTY, Ontario—Isaac Towell plays with newborn kittens on the front porch. 

Behind him is the mother cat, 1997.
© Larry Towell / Magnum Photos

SELMA, Ala.—1965.
© Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos

CHINA—1978.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

TIBET—Monks debate in the Amdo region, 2001.
© Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos

TEFE, Brazil—1979.
© Alex Webb / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—On the Lower East Side, 1979.
© Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos

GREENWOOD, Miss.—Bob Dylan plays on the back porch of the 

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee office, 1963.
© Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—Four men hang out on a stoop in the Bedford-Stuyvesant 

section of Brooklyn, summer 1967.
© Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—2000.
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

CHICAGO—A girl "reads" Ebony magazine, 1947.
© Wayne Miller / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—Sitting on a stoop in the East Village, 1984.
© Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos

JODPHUR, India—Three men sit in the old quarter, 1996.
© Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos

CALIFORNIA—Art and Maysie Long at the Hospice of Marin, 1981.
© Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—Children walk hand in hand in Harlem, 1963.
© Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos

NEW YORK CITY—Near Fort Tryon Park, 1958.
© Inge Morath © The Inge Morath Foundation / Magnum Photos

August 2008