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Vladimir Horowitz – Antique Print

Vladimir Horowitz, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Vladimir Horowitz, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Vladimir Horowitz in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Vladimir Horowitz

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Vladimir Horowitz, the Russian-born pianist, appears here in a Bain News Service portrait, one of the many studio and news pictures the agency made of performers in New York. Horowitz arrived in the United States in 1928 and became one of the most celebrated keyboard artists of the twentieth century, admired for his virtuosity and his famously dramatic interpretations. The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress preserves this kind of working press photograph, which was made for newspapers and magazines that needed images of musicians and other public figures. The caption card gives no date, but the "Music" tracing and the agency's New York origin place the portrait within the company's work with the city's performing arts.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI; Music; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,035 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158581

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