Louis Stettner

Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York

1954 / Printed Later

Signed and dated in pencil on mount recto; number "8" blind-stamped in lower left corner of mount Image 9-1/2" x 7-1/4", Mount 18" x 14", Matted 20" x 16"

Signed, titled, dated, & numbered in pencil on verso, Artist's stamp on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image - 12 1/2" x 18 1/2"; Paper - 16 7/8" x 19 3/4"; Matted 20" x 24" Edition 15 o...

New York City, 1948 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed later Availabl...

14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print. Edition 15. Signed on verso. Kazuo Sumida first visited New York in 1995. He found the city to be one of “both bustle and silence,” particularly the underground world of the subway, where he encountered “a place full of characters.” By 2002, he had produced a large body of work of images taken in this subterranean metropolis – tender scenes of lovers and children; gritty portraits of beggars for whom the subway is home; artists, musicians, commuters, and others who pass through the tunnels on their daily journeys. The resulting monograph, A Story of the New York Subway, was published in 2002, and this image appeared on the cover. Sumida was born in 1952 in Kochi Prefecture in southern Japan. Although photography was not his formal career, Sumida has pursued the art throughout his life. He graduated from Osaka Photography Graduate School in 1983, and also studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, on a fellowship from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. He lives in Japan, and continues to visit New York frequently. His work has been shown at the Tokyo Ginza Kodak Photo...