Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2007.

Kennedy Coming Out of Phone Booth

CultureAmerican

Date1957

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 × 13 5/16 in. (25.4 × 33.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 13/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.5 × 35.2 cm)

InscribedVerso top left written in ink: #31, K-28; Lower left black ink stamp: ©1997 Verner Reed Photograph; Printed at Black and White Image, Inc., Portland, Maine; All Rights Reserved and signed Verner Reed in ink. Lower left in ink K-28

Credit LineGift from the estate of Verner Z. Reed to honor the artist's friendship with Lea Wilds

Object number2007.1.1

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print of John F. Kennedy coming out of a phone booth. He straightens his tie and he walks out and there are four men with hats on standing outside the phone booth.

ProvenanceDeborah Reed [widow of Verner Reed] Falmouth, Maine; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift from the estate of Verner Z. Reed to honor the artist's friendship with Lea Wilds, 2007. Exhibition History"Photographs for Life Magazine," New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH, July 9 - August 13, 1999 "A Retrospective of the Photojournalist," Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT, March - April, 2000; "John F. Kennedy," Otis House Museum, Boston, MA, July 1 - August 8, 2004; "Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed 1950 - 1972," National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA, August 21, 2004 - January 2, 2005