Coming to America, c 1951 by Louis Stettner 'Cecil Beaton set his sights on New York as "a pot of gold" that he intended to raid,' says Peter Conrad. 'The Photo League show has an ironic commentary on this mercenary declaration: in Louis Stettner’s ‘Coming to America’, a Jewish immigrant and his child, swaddled in blankets, huddle on the deck of a ship, buffeted by gales as they stare at a flailing wintry ocean. The promised land is nowhere to be seen'

Photograph: Louis Stettner/Courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery