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Arches of Muncipal Building / Antoinette B. Hervey. – Antique Photo Print

Arches of Muncipal Building / Antoinette B. Hervey., [not after 1920] — historic photograph
Arches of Muncipal Building / Antoinette B. Hervey., [not after 1920]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Antoinette B. Hervey's pinhole photograph turns its attention to the arches of New York's Municipal Building, a civic landmark in lower Manhattan completed in 1914 and known for its great arcade spanning Chambers Street. Hervey was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography, whose students favored soft-focus, painterly effects in the Pictorialist tradition. Made with a pinhole camera and printed in palladium, the image shows how the picture's simple, rounded forms can give the architecture a quiet, almost abstract quality. The print was exhibited at The Camera Club in New York in 1931 and later published in a 1996 study of the White School.

Created / published[not after 1920]
Medium1 photographic print : palladium ; 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
GenrePalladium prints 1910-1920.Pinhole photographs 1910-1920.
NotesAntoinette B. Hervey was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Date, subject, and physical description data provided by donor. Photograph shot with a pinhole camera. Published in: Pictorialism into modernism: the Clarence H. White School of Photography / edited by Marianne Fulton; with text by Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin, 1996, p. 75. Exhibited: The Camera Club, New York, June, 1931. Forms part of: Warren and Margot Coville collection. Purchase; Coville Photographic Art Foundation; 2000 (DLC/PP-2000:090).
SubjectsCity & town halls--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,656 × 4,540 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223075

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