Big cycling Race, Madison Square Garden, New York
Photograph
1932 (photographed)
1932 (photographed)
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| Title | Big cycling Race, Madison Square Garden, New York (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 20thC; Zinnemann Fred, Big Cycling Race, Madison Square Garden. |
| Physical description | Photograph |
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| Gallery label | Before a successful career as a film director, Zinnemann worked as a photographer in Europe and the United States. His photographs of New York hold a cinematic quality and capture the whirling pace of the city, from crowds gathered in Times Square to this image of cyclists racing around a velodrome. For Zinnemann, New York was ‘a place humming with incredible energy and power.’(May 2023) |
| Credit line | Copyright Fred Zinnemann |
| Historical context | Fred Zinnemann made several of the most celebrated films of the twentieth century, including The Day of the Jackal, A Man for All Seasons, High Noon and From Here to Eternity. But before his cinematic career developed, he practised still photography and set out to show how people survived and functioned without work during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Zinnemann’s view of life during the Depression is surprisingly optimistic: his images include the crowds at a six-day bicycle race in Madison Square, and the dramatic grandeur of the newly completed Empire State Building. |
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| Accession number | E.1683-1989 |
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| Record created | August 1, 2003 |
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