Louis Bernstein
Father and Child

Father and Child
Father and Child
Father and Child
ArtistAmerican, 1911–2005
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Father and Child
Date1943
PlaceBrooklyn, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 13 3/8 in. (23.1 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (23 × 34.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Wolf Associates
Object number82.546.36
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

A member of the Photo League, the New York–based,
left-leaning organization that championed both photography and the working man,
Louis Bernstein used his camera as a tool to illuminate life in his
neighborhood in Brooklyn. He noted, “There’s as much variety in my own back
yard as there is in a thousand miles of travel.” In this visually off-kilter
picture, a father and son lie in the sand of Coney Island, unaware of Bernstein
photographing them from above. For more than 40 years, Bernstein captured the
weekenders soaking in the sun at this beachside getaway. “It’s the
photographer, not the material, that wears out first,” Bernstein claimed.




ProvenanceWolf Associates, Houston; given to MFAH, 1982.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right in ink "Lou Bernstein"

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