Ruth Orkin

Sandstorm, West Village, New York City
1949, printed 1981

A black and white photograph depicting a street scene with a group of people on the left, including women seated with a baby carriage and children standing nearby. A man stands in the center looking towards the camera, and a child is crouched on the right picking something up from the ground. The street is littered with paper and debris, and buildings fade into a hazy background, suggesting a foggy or polluted atmosphere.
A black and white photograph depicting a street scene with a group of people on the left, including women seated with a baby carriage and children standing nearby. A man stands in the center looking towards the camera, and a child is crouched on the right picking something up from the ground. The street is littered with paper and debris, and buildings fade into a hazy background, suggesting a foggy or polluted atmosphere.

On view
Floor 7

Date
1949, printed 1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 3/16in. (26 × 33.5 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 13 3/16in. (26 × 33.5 cm)

Accession number
2019.22

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

Rights and reproductions
© Ruth Orkin

API
artworks/60806

Ruth Orkin
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