Off Fire Island

1894

Not on view

A member of the of the New York Stock Exchange and the Camera Club of New York, Post collected European and American Pictorial photography and inspired Stieglitz to do the same. Unlike the pretty winter scenes that were Post's photographic specialty, this image reveals a remarkably clear and minimal vision, unexpected in such an early work.

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Title: Off Fire Island
Artist: William B. Post (American, 1857–1925)
Date: 1894
Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.2 cm. (3 3/6 x 4 7/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991
Object Number: 1991.1023
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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