Train Crossing the James River, Richmond, Virginia
Artist
Emil Otto Hoppé
CultureEnglish | German
Date1926
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 4 x 2 7/8 in. (10.2 x 7.3 cm)
InscribedTitled on verso
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Photography Fund
Object number2007.11
Not on view
DescriptionThis vintage gelatin silver print is of a train traveling on an elevated rail road above a river with a city in the background.Label TextEmil O. Hoppé British (b. Germany 1878-1972) Train Crossing the James River, Richmond, Virginia, 1926 Gelatin-silver print On loan from Silverstein Photography, New York City T2007.7 In 1919, at the time of his arrival in America, Hoppé was one of the best-known photographers in the world. In his London studio, he photographed royalty, literary figures, dancers and film stars. Lured to set up a satellite studio in New York, Hoppé soon found himself crisscrossing the country by car and rail at the behest of a publisher. For nearly five years he photographed all over America; this work anticipated later efforts by the Farm Security Administration photographers. Most importantly, his work foreshadowed the photography of Walker Evans whose 1938 American Photographs exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, along with its accompanying book, constituted one of the undisputed landmarks in photographic history. Hoppé's fresh and vital vision of 1920s America reveals that modernism in photography began not just in New York and California, but across the entire USA. Edited By: CW Edited Date: 2007 Approved By: ERL Approval Date: 2007ProvenanceBruce Silverstein Photography; Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Photography Fund, 2007 Exhibition History"The World of Photography," Alice R. and Frank B. Sol Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 20, 2007 - May 25, 2008 "E.O. Hoppé's Amerika," Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York, April 5 - May 12, 2007. Published ReferencesE.O. Hoppé and Phillip Prodger, _E.O. Hoppé's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s_ (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007), 92. ISBN: 978-0393065442
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