The photographs of Richard Pousette-Dart

I've always thought of Richard Pousette-Dart as a painter. He was in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York. But he was also a fine photographer, and teacher of photography.

Richard Pousette-Dart's portrait of his friend and colleague Mark Rothko, c. 1948

Another portrait from Richard Pousette-Dart's circle: Barnett Newman, c. 1948

Robert Flaherty by Richard Pousette-Dart. This was taken in 1951, the year of the great film-maker's death.

Richard Pousette-Dart's fabulous portrait of the gallerist Betty Parsons, c. 1948

Another shot of Betty Parsons by Richard Pousette-Dart, c. 1948

Richard Pousette-Dart's portrait of Sasha Schneider, the great violinist of the Budapest String Quartet, c. 1950

Another Mark Rothko portrait by Richard Pousette, from 1948

I love this shot by Richard Pousette-Dart: Saul and Barbara Leiter, c. 1951-54. Saul Leiter came to New York to study painting with Pousette-Dart, but he steered him into a career in photography instead.

Martha Ryther by Richard Pousette-Dart, 1970s. I could be wrong, but I believe it's superimposed with a self-portrait by Ryther's husband, the painter Morris Kantor.

A wonderful Richard Pousette-Dart portrait of the textile designer Lois Long de Antonio, c. 1955.

Thad Jones by Richard Pousette-Dart, 1955

Here's the man himself: Richard Pousette-Dart, c. 1948