Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne
Karl Struss, Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne, 1913, platinum print, Bequest of Fae Heath Batten, © unknown, research required, 1997.58.125
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- Title
Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne
- Artist
- Date
1913
- Medium
platinum print
- Edition
47/75
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 3 5/8 in x 4 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
edition: 47/75, graphite, lower left
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Bequest of Fae Heath Batten
- Accession Number
1997.58.125
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
Karl Struss, who studied photography at Columbia University under the renowned teacher Clarence White (whose work also appears in this gallery), became a popular New York–based photographer in the early twentieth century. He specialized in Pictorialism, the romantic style that emphasized soft focus and painterly manipulation of prints. In this idealistic interpretation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Struss celebrates the bridge’s majestic neo-Gothic tower that rises before a muted Manhattan skyline, while softening the industrial forms of the span and suspension cables as well as the stark, fenced foreground.
- Exhibitions
2002 Recent Acquisitions - Photography Portland Art Museum
2011 One Woman’s Legacy: Selections from the Fae Heath Batten Photography Bequest Portland Art Museum
2014 Dusk Through Dawn: Photography at the Edges of Daylight Portland Art Museum
