Joel Meyerowitz

Rockefeller Center
1970, printed 1999

A black and white photograph capturing a contrast between space exploration and everyday life, featuring a full-sized astronaut suit displayed in a storefront window and an elderly man sitting nonchalantly next to it on the sidewalk, seemingly lost in thought or waiting.
A black and white photograph capturing a contrast between space exploration and everyday life, featuring a full-sized astronaut suit displayed in a storefront window and an elderly man sitting nonchalantly next to it on the sidewalk, seemingly lost in thought or waiting.

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Date
1970, printed 1999

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 11in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 13 5/16 × 8 7/8in. (33.8 × 22.5 cm)

Accession number
2000.286.12

Series
Joel Meyerowitz Photographs: The Early Years

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ronald B. and Susan N. Milch

Rights and reproductions
© Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

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