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[Jan Papanek, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Jan Papanek, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1920 and 1961] — historic photograph
[Jan Papanek, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1920 and 1961]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Jan Papanek, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Jan Papanek, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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This head-and-shoulders portrait shows Jan Papanek, born in 1896, turned to his right in a close, unfussy frame. The print was made by Kostich Photos of Long Island City, New York, a commercial studio, so it reflects the everyday business of portrait photography between the world wars and into the 1950s. Studios of this kind served families, professionals and visiting public figures, and their sitters were usually posed against plain backdrops with soft, even lighting. The record gives no further details about the occasion, so the picture is best read as a typical example of that studio work, with the sitter's features and expression as its main subject.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1961]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1970.Photographic prints 1920-1970.
NotesBy Kostich Photos, Long Island City, New York.
SubjectsPapanek, Jan,--1896-
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,171 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170376

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