Streaming Window, Washington, DC
1972
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View on museum website →Medium
gold-toned gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 10 × 10.1 cm (3 15/16 × 4 in.) sheet: 20 × 25.4 cm (7 7/8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Fern M. Schad
Accession Number
2012.123.13
Art Historical Context
**Streaming Window, Washington, DC** (1972) is a captivating gelatin silver print by American photographer Nancy Rexroth, masterfully gold-toned to infuse subtle warmth and longevity into its delicate tones. Captured in the nation's capital during the early 1970s—a time of social upheaval and urban introspection—this 10 × 10.1 cm image (on a larger 20 × 25.4 cm sheet) evokes the quiet poetry of everyday city life. Rexroth, known for her lyrical, dreamlike depictions of American scenes, often blended documentary precision with a soft, emotive haze reminiscent of Pictorialist influences. The ti...
About the Artist
Nancy Rexroth
Nancy Rexroth, born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., and raised in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia, drew early inspiration from childhood summer visits to relatives in Iowa, which infused her work with a sense of exotic, dreamlike rural memory. She earned a BFA in English from American University, where she developed an interest in photojournalism influenced by masters like Emmet Gowin, Robert Fran...