The Hollywood Suites (Windows) #20
1976
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.4 × 32.2 cm (9 5/8 × 12 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.6 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.685
Art Historical Context
Steve Kahn's *The Hollywood Suites (Windows #20* (1976) is a striking gelatin silver print from the Gallery of Art's photography collection, generously gifted by Mary and Dan. Measuring 24.4 × 32.2 cm, this intimate black-and-white image belongs to Kahn's acclaimed Hollywood Suites series, which captures the nocturnal allure of Hollywood motel windows. Shot in the vibrant yet shadowy underbelly of 1970s Los Angeles it reflects the era's fascination with urban transience and the blurred boundary between public spectacle and private reverie. The gelatin silver print medium—beloved by photograph...
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...