Pedestrians
Artist
Johan Hagemeyer
(American, born Netherlands, 1884 - 1962)
Date1921
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (24.77 x 19.37 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4008
InscribedSigned/Titled/Dated
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Mount
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionSoftly focused image of silhouetted pedestrians and a column in the lower right corner.Gallery LabelThe silhouetted forms and elongated shadows of urban pedestrians animate this street scene by Johan Hagemeyer. Many photographers embraced modern subjects in the 1930s and 1940s. Hagemeyer’s soft-focus technique, harkens back to a previous decade, however, when artistically minded photographers associated with the Pictorialist movement embraced this aesthetic to distinguish their photographs from amateur snapshots and documentary images.
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