East side, West side exhibition of photographs – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with East side, West side exhibition of photographs, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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East side, West side exhibition of photographs
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The title sets this poster apart: it announces an exhibition of photographs called *East side, West side*, a pairing that points to the two halves of New York City. Printed in 1938 under the WPA Federal Art Project, it is a color silkscreen, a medium the project's poster workshops used to make inexpensive, eye-catching announcements for public exhibitions, concerts, and events during the Depression. A date stamp on the back reads January 5, 1939, which suggests it was still in circulation at the turn of the year. Posters like this one show how New Deal artists brought commercial design into everyday public life.
| Created / published | NYC : WPA Federal Art Project 1938. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Exhibition posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatley Press, c1987, no. 312 |
| Subjects | Photography--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,811 × 4,745 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219776 |
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