Empire State Building, from 133 West 22nd Street, New York
November 1960
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.3 × 34.7 cm (9 3/16 × 13 11/16 in.) sheet: 24 × 35.6 cm (9 7/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2020.29.79
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 ...