Louis Stettner

Penn Station
1958

A black and white photograph capturing a blurred figure in the background with a sharp focus on a person's hands holding a newspaper in the foreground. The newspaper's text is not fully legible, and the image has a high-contrast, grainy quality, with a large black area on the left side that frames the composition.
A black and white photograph capturing a blurred figure in the background with a sharp focus on a person's hands holding a newspaper in the foreground. The newspaper's text is not fully legible, and the image has a high-contrast, grainy quality, with a large black area on the left side that frames the composition.

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Date
1958

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Overall (Sight): 15 11/16 × 19 11/16in. (39.8 × 50 cm) Sheet (Sight): 8 3/4 × 13 1/4in. (22.2 × 33.7 cm) Frame: 16 3/4 × 20 11/16 × 1 3/8in. (42.5 × 52.5 × 3.5 cm)

Accession number
98.67.3

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
©LouisStettner
(Louis Stettner)

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