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City Hall Park, New York

Photograph
1915 (photographed), 1983 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A black and white photograph depicting a scene in City Hall Park, New York. The photograph is taken from above and shows a busy main walkway through the park. Shadows cast by people, buildings and trees feature very prominantly in the image.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • City Hall Park, New York (assigned by artist)
  • Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-pulled dust grain photogravure made by the Talbot-Klic photogravure process printed onto Lana Gravure paper
Brief description
Photograph by Paul Strand, 'City Hall Park, New York', from the portfolio 'Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917', a portfolio of ten hand-pulled dust grain photogravures printed by Jon Goodman, published by the Silver Mountain Foundation with an introduction by Ben Lifson, USA, 1983, photographed 1915
Physical description
A black and white photograph depicting a scene in City Hall Park, New York. The photograph is taken from above and shows a busy main walkway through the park. Shadows cast by people, buildings and trees feature very prominantly in the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33.4cm
  • Width: 15.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Copy number
235/300
Production
The film positives were made from enlarged internegatives made by Paul Strand between 1916 and 1917 from his original negatives of 1914-16. The plates were made by Jon Goodman and printed under his supervision at Atelier de Taille Douce, Saint-Preux, Switzerland and at the Photogravure workshop, Millerton, New York, on Lana Gravure paper from the Papeteries de Lana, Docelles, France.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Collection
Accession number
E.1966-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
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