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Feininger, Andreas
American (b. France, 1906-1999)

TITLE ON OBJECT: New York 1940 - Ghetto, Orchard Street, Lower East Side.

1940
gelatin silver print
34.0 x 27.6 cm.
Gift of the photographer
78:0606:0118

NON-GEH NUMBERS: AF-66-NYC-18-a/1 / 129

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Feininger, Andreas. --New York.-- Chicago & New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1945. p. 29.//
Feininger, Andreas. --New York in the Forties.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. p. 122.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Foto: Andreas Feininger" (signed) "Andreas Feininger V (circled) 1940" (monogram) "AF" (in pencil) "New York City, 1940" "Ghetto, Orchard Street, Lower East Side." "129 (circled)" "33 (circled & lined out)" "neg. # AF-66-NYC-18-a/1" "26 (circled & lined out)" "805 (circled)" (in red pencil) "8 3/4 x 10 3/4"

copyright, Andreas Feininger

NOTES: Catalogued 2/94, DZ. "The "monogram" is a symbolic abbreviation of the letters A and F. I use it for identifying prints which I consider good enough for exhibition purposes." [Andreas Feininger, 3/14/94]

SUBJECTS:
street scene, figures in
people, shopping
architecture, store fronts

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