Inv. No.S-1215
Title
"New York City, from the Empire State Building"
Year1990s
Medium
gelatin silver print on cardboard
Dimensions26 x 34 cm
Edition2/75
Signature
signed and numbered (pencil) on recto, artist stamp with title (ink) on verso
Comment
Similar to Brett Weston in 1945, Jeff Nixon shows an "ideal" perspective of the canyon of houses in Manhattan, beginning at the lower left edge of the picture with the Flatiron Building (corner of Broadway/Fifth Avenue) and continuing down to the Twin Towers.
(Fritz Simak, 2011)