{"data":{"id":"13751","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":13751,"topgoose_id":13074,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":13751,"title":"New York","display_artist_text":"Andreas Feininger","display_date":"1940","accession_number":"2001.82","dimensions":"Overall: 10 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 19.7 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Gift of the Feininger Family","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndreas Feininger, \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c/em\u003e, 1940. Gelatin silver print, overall: 10 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 19.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Feininger Family 2001.82. © Estate of Andreas Feininger\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eModernist photographer Andreas Feininger moved to New York City in 1939, at the outbreak of World War II. He soon began photographing the city in black-and-white, often shooting vertiginous views of towering skyscrapers marked by technical precision and attention to architectural detail. He also catalogued numerous storefronts in Manhattan’s downtown neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Little Italy, Chinatown, and elsewhere. This image of a shop selling wholesale snails is unusual in that Feininger did not give it a more specific title―many comparable images received captions detailing their exact locations. But like his other urban images, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c/i\u003e displays Feininger’s interest in capturing reflections and precise formal geometries.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Storefront displaying bins of snails for sale beneath a sign reading \"S. Scozzaro importer wholesale snails.\"","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:11:04.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:50.129-05:00","images":[{"id":103800,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/13751/2001_82_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"7572","type":"artist"}]}}}}