The Hollywood Suites (Mirrors) #6
1977
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.2 × 24.4 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 35.6 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.96
Art Historical Context
In the Contemporary Photographs department of the National of Art, Steve Kahn's *The Hollywood Suites (Mir) #6* (1977) offers a mesmerizing glimpse into late-1970s photographic experimentation. This gelatin silver print, with its image size of 32.2 × 24.4 cm on a 35.6 × 27.8 cm sheet, belongs to Kahn's evocative "Hollywood Suites" series, where mirrors likely play a starring role in fracturing reality and inviting perceptual play. The gelatin silver process, a hallmark of mid-20th-century black-and-white photography, delivers rich tonal depth and fine detail, perfectly suiting intimate, refle...
About the Artist
Steve Kahn
Steve Kahn (1943–2018) was an American photographer born on December 29, 1943, in Los Angeles to Virginia and Eugene Kahn. Demonstrating an early passion for the medium, he shot assignments for a local newspaper while still in grade school and later worked as a photojournalist on the streets of Los Angeles starting in 1968, contributing as a stringer to magazines like *Life* and *Newsweek*. Kahn e...