Rudolph Burckhardt: An Afternoon in Astoria

by Rudolph Burckhardt and Sarah Hermanson Meister

One afternoon in February of 1940, Rudolph Burckhardt took the train from Manhattan to the borough of Queens. While there he took pictures of gas stations, cars and children playing. Revealing the photographer's delight in the uncelebrated and the everyday, these four subjects appear repeatedly, from different distances and varying points of view. Later dry-mounted into a hand-made, spiral-bound album titled An Afternoon in Astoria in neatly printed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870704362
• ISBN13: 9780870704369
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.3" x 8.5"