New York
When Steiner took this remarkable upward view of a skyscraper and its airshaft, his radical vantage point was a novelty in America. (The abstraction and torque of the image were more characteristic of European constructivist artists, in particular László Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Rodchenko.) The print served as a postcard announcement of Steiner's first exhibition, which took place at J.B. Neumann's Fifty-seventh Street gallery in 1926.
Artwork Details
- Title: New York
- Artist: Ralph Steiner (American, Cleveland 1899–1986 Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Date: 1926
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 11.9 x 5.8 cm (4 11/16 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.128
- Rights and Reproduction: © Ralph Steiner, compliments of Estate
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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