The Hollywood Suites (Windows) #8
1976
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 32.3 cm (9 5/8 × 12 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 35.6 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2016.190.7
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1970s, Steve Kahn captured the intimate, shadowy essence of urban life in his *Hollywood Suites (Windows) #8* (1976), a gelatin silver print that invites viewers into a private world framed by a window. This work is part of Kahn's acclaimed *Hollywood Suites* series, explores the transient spaces of Hollywood motels—evocative glimpses of half-seen figures and everyday vignettes that blur the line between voyeurism and poetry. Measuring 24.5 × 32.3 cm, its modest scale enhances the sense of peering into a hidden narrative. The gelatin silver print medium, a hallmark of fine art phot...
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...