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[Reflection, Fifth Avenue] – Historic Print

[Reflection, Fifth Avenue] — historic photograph
[Reflection, Fifth Avenue]. 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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A shop window on Fifth Avenue in New York City serves as the mirror here, catching the street behind the photographer and folding it into the glass. The picture was made in 1950, a period when Fifth Avenue was among the city's busiest shopping and office corridors, and when storefront displays were carefully arranged to draw pedestrians in. Reflections of this kind let a single frame hold two layers at once: the goods on display and the moving crowd and buildings mirrored over them. The gelatin silver print preserves the tonal range that made such street scenes so vivid to mid-century viewers.

Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Notes1950
SubjectsCity & town life--New York (State)--New York--1950. Reflections--1950. Show windows--New York (State)--New York--1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177090

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