"... street furniture, outdoor advertising, and pedestrians ..."

Metropolitan Museum of of Art
New York, New York

New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940
September 23, 2008–January 4, 2009
The Howard Gilman Gallery

In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—created what are today considered to be some of the greatest photographs of New York ever made. This exhibition will present in its entirety a unique album (acquired by the Museum in 1972) of 67 now-classic images of street furniture, outdoor advertising, and pedestrians, selected and sequenced by Burckhardt in 1940."

[image from Met Web site. Caption: "Rudy Burckhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1914–1999), "Eagle" Barber Shop Window, New York City], 1939. Gelatin silver print; 7 1/16 x 9 11/16 in. (17.9 x 24.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1972 (1972.585.12) © Estate of Rudy Burckhardt."]