The Hollywood Suites (Nudes) #23
1974–1975
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.1 × 21.2 cm (6 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.97
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1970s, American photographer Steve Kahn created *The Hollywood Suites (N) #23* (1974–1975), a captivating gelatin silver print from his innovative series exploring the female nude. This intimate work, measuring 16.1 × 21.2 cm, captures the era's fascination with voyeurism and the female form, set against the anonymous glamour of Hollywood motel rooms. Kahn, known for his fashion photography roots, blurred boundaries between commercial and fine art, infusing his images with a dreamlike surrealism. The gelatin silver print medium—prioritized for its rich tonal gradations and sharp de...
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...