Munich - Meiserstrasse ?
June 1, 1982
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22 × 15.4 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/16 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
Accession Number
2016.22.264
Art Historical Context
Andy Warhol's *Munich - Meiserstrasse ?*, captured on June 1, 1982, offers a glimpse into the artist's prolific photographic practice beyond his iconic Pop Art silkscreens. Known for blurring the lines between high art and mass media, Warhol documented everyday scenes and travels with his camera, producing thousands of images that reveal his keen eye for the ordinary elevated to the extraordinary. This gelatin silver print, a classic black-and-white darkroom process prized for its rich tonal range and fine detail, depicts an unidentified moment on Munich's Meiserstrasse—a bustling street in th...
About the Artist
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the youngest of three sons to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. His devout Byzantine Catholic family nurtured his artistic inclinations; bedridden at age eight with Sydenham's chorea, he drew from comic books and Hollywood magazines supplied by his artistic mother Julia, who later influenced ...