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Man, Five Points Square, New York

Photograph
1916 (photographed), 1983 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A black and white photograph depicting a portrait of a man wearing a black jacket and a black broad brimmed hat. The man is captured gazing away from the camera with a soft but serious facial expression.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Man, Five Points Square, New York (assigned by artist)
  • Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917 (series title)
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, 'Man, Five Points Square, 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 1916
Physical description
A black and white photograph depicting a portrait of a man wearing a black jacket and a black broad brimmed hat. The man is captured gazing away from the camera with a soft but serious facial expression.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.3cm
  • Width: 25.9cm
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
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Collection
Accession number
E.1968-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
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