Tenth Street, New York City
1959
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 33.1 x 22.1 cm (13 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Fund for Living Photographers
Accession Number
2003.18.1
Art Historical Context
In the bustling heart of 1950s New York City, John Cohen captured the essence of urban life with *Tenth Street, New York City* (1959), a gelatin silver print now housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Photographs. Measuring 33.1 x 22.1 cm, this intimate image evokes the post-World War II energy of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where Tenth Street was a lively corridor of artist studios, galleries, and everyday encounters. Cohen, an active photographer during this era of cultural upheaval, documented the city's raw vitality amid the rise of Beat culture and abstract expressionism...
About the Artist
John Cohen
John Cohen (1932–2019) was a pioneering American photographer, painter, musician, and filmmaker whose multifaceted career bridged the vibrant art scenes of mid-20th-century New York and the raw authenticity of Appalachian folk traditions. Born on August 2, 1932, in Sunnyside, Queens, to Israel Cohen, a shoe store owner, he grew up on eastern Long Island, where he first picked up the guitar and ban...