133 West 22nd Street, New York
February 1964
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.4 × 16.5 cm (9 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 25.1 × 17.1 cm (9 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Seth and Erin Neubardt
Accession Number
2018.140.1
Art Historical Context
In February 1964, American photographer David Vestal captured133 West 22nd, New York*, a gelatin silver print that freezes a slice of mid-century Manhattan life. Nestled in Chelsea, this image likely depicts the unassuming facade of a residential building amid the bustling urban fabric of New York City. Vestal, renowned for his meticulous documentation of everyday architecture, brought a keen eye to the city's evolving streetscapes, preserving moments that might otherwise fade into history. The gelatin silver print medium—printed directly from a negative using light-sensitive silver salts sus...
About the Artist
David Vestal
David Vestal was an American photographer whose career unfolded largely in the second half of the twentieth century, a period when photography was asserting its place as a serious fine art medium. Trained initially as a painter, he turned to photography in the late 1940s and studied under the legendary Sid Grossman at the Photo League in New York — an institution committed to documentary humanism ...