View of the Seagram Building at night from across the street, New York City

People:

Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. (photographic studio)
Philip Johnson (interior designer)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (interior designer)
Philip Johnson (furniture designer)
Philip Johnson (architect)
Phyllis Lambert (planning director)
Samuel Bronfman (client)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (furniture designer)

Title:

View of the Seagram Building at night from across the street, New York City

Date:

January 1958

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.1 x 15.3 cm sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0478:009

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, l.l.: with advertisements on fence; and "GEORGE A. FULLER / COMPANY / BUILDING CONSTRUCTION" [on signboard affixed to roof of covered walkway]; and l.r.: "AL SCHACHT'S" [t. of building façade] stamped, inscribed and numbered - in black ink, on the print, verso, c.: "Photograph No. 71723 [underlined] / GOTTSCHO - SCHLEISNER / 150-35 - 86th Avenue / Jamaica 32, N.Y. / If Published, Please Credit" ["71723" inscribed by an unknown hand in graphite] inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.c.: "January 1958" and with title

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

night photography

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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