ID: 700000323 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000323	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2

Poughkeepsie, New York (photograph; André Kertész (American, 1894-1985); 1937; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1987.1100.48; )

Note: The structure of this picture brilliantly joins the traveler's descent down the stairs and the train's anticipated advance along the track. The wait is neatly figured by the man in white planted like a clothespin between the zigzag path of arrival and the vertical zip pointing toward the trajectory of future travel.

Titles:

Poughkeepsie, New York (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photograph [300046300] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1937

Creator Display:

André Kertész (American, 1894-1985) [preferred,VP]

photographer Kertesz, Andre (American photographer, 1894-1985, born in Hungary) [500019907]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Poughkeepsie [7014282] Dutchess county (county), New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1987.1100.48

Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987

Display Materials: Gelatin silver print

	gelatin silver prints [300128695]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.3 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	train stations [300007783]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, transportation structures, transportation buildings, rail transportation buildings, railway buildings) (AAT)

	Poughkeepsie [7014282]
	.....(Dutchess county (county), New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Copyright: © The Estate of André Kertész / Higher Pictures

Provenance: [Susan Harder, New York]; John C. Waddell, New York (March 29, 1983)

Inscriptions: Inscription: Signed and dated on print, verso, bottom center: "A Kertész // March 28 - 1938"; inscribed on print, verso, top center : "Station. // 1937"; stamped in ink on print, verso, center: "PHOTO COPYRIGHT BY // ANDRE KERTESZ // 307 E. 44th ST. NEW YORK // TEL. MURRAY HILL 4 - 4800"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Poughkeepsie, New York	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 1 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 3 March 2018