Photography exhibition Photographs by the W.P.A. Federal Art Project. – Antique Poster Print
(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 Photography exhibition Photographs by the W.P.A. Federal Art Project.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Photography exhibition Photographs by the W.P.A. Federal Art Project.
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Unlike most exhibition notices in this set, this one announces a show of photographs rather than paintings or prints. Its subject headings point to a 1941 exhibition in Long Beach, New York, and also mention cameras and skyscrapers, which suggests the work turned to the modern city and the tools used to record it. The poster is a silkscreen in color, a method the WPA poster division used to produce inexpensive, eye-catching notices for public venues. The record credits Maurice Glickman, a sculptor, a reminder that many Federal Art Project artists moved between media.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 315 · Glickman Maurice sculptor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--Long Beach--1940-1950. Cameras--1940-1950. Photographic prints--1940-1950. Skyscrapers--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 980 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 154_Photography_exhibition_1941 |
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