Mulberry Street

1948

Not on view

Whether he trained his camera on exuberant summer scenes on the beaches of Coney Island or Mulberry Street during the San Gennaro festival, shown here, Grossman was one of the greatest chroniclers of working-class life in New York during the late 1930s and 1940s. The slapdash framing of this scene and the kaleidoscopic effect of the lights against the night sky make palpable the ebullient atmosphere on the street, engulfing the viewer in the experience.

Artwork Details

Title: Mulberry Street
Artist: Sid Grossman (American, 1913–1955)
Date: 1948
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 33.7 x 26.5 cm (13 1/4 x 10 7/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990
Object Number: 1990.1139.2
Rights and Reproduction: © Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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