Artist:

Jerome Liebling, born New York City 1924-died Northampton, MA 2011  Search this

Medium:

gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 5 3/4 x 7 3/8 in. (14.6 x 18.7 cm)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1951

Exhibition Label:

The son of a waiter in Depression-era Brooklyn, Jerome Liebling sympathized with “the folk who had to struggle to stay even,” and recognized unheralded individuals in his work. Liebling’s preoccupation with the human condition led him everywhere from a home for the blind to a slaughterhouse. He confronted difficult subject matter, usually avoided in mass media, with compassion.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013

Topic:

Children  Search this

Landscape\Minnesota\Iron Range  Search this

Architecture Exterior\detail\fence  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in part through the Director's Discretionary Fund

Copyright:

© 1970, Jerome Liebling

Object number:

1990.67.1

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Graphic Arts

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71beb48ad-e20e-4ac7-ba0d-81607b850b18

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_1990.67.1