Front view
Inv. No.S-0650
ArtistBerenice Abbottborn 1898 in Springfield, Ohio, USAdied 1991 in Monson, Maine, USA
Title

"Pingbank Barber Shop"


413 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, New York City

Year1938 / 1979
Medium

gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard

Dimensions49 x 38 cm
Edition28/60
Signature

signed and numbered (pencil) on mount recto, artist's and publishing stamp (Parasol Press) on mount verso

Comment

One of the various shop windows in New York photographed by Abbott. In the display of New York’s oldest barber shop one can see the shaving mugs of regular customers while at the same time the façade on the opposite as well as a horse carriage are mirrored.
(Fritz Simak)

S-0650, "Pingbank Barber Shop"
Berenice Abbott, "Pingbank Barber Shop", 1938
S-0650, Front view
© Commerce Graphics Ltd, New York
S-0650, Back view
Berenice Abbott, "Pingbank Barber Shop", 1938
S-0650, Back view
S-0650, Vgl. 0012 Berenice Abbott, „Chicken Market“, 1937
Berenice Abbott, "Pingbank Barber Shop", 1938
S-0650, Vgl. 0012 Berenice Abbott, „Chicken Market“, 1937