New York

Andreas Feininger · 1947

This is New York, photographed by Andreas Feininger in nineteen forty-seven. He shot the city with very long lenses from a great distance, which flattens twenty blocks into a single wall of buildings. The print came to the museum from his widow, in his memory.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 10 11/16 × 13 7/16" (27.2 × 34.2 cm) · Credit Gift of Wysse Feininger in memory of her husband Andreas

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Green Tea, The She-Wolf

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Central Park South, New York, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby