Couple / 327 Commonwealth Avenue
Goodman, a Boston photographer best known for his series of photographs made in that city’s red light district, the so-called Combat Zone, has described the circumstances of this image: "I was walking up Commonwealth Avenue in Boston at the end of a warm day in June 1976. I heard music coming from an open second floor window and as I looked up I saw a nude couple. At the same time, they saw me with my camera and said ‘hey, come on up,’ and I said ‘come on down.’" And they did, joyously at ease in their bodies.
Artwork Details
- Title: Couple / 327 Commonwealth Avenue
- Artist: John Goodman (American, born 1947)
- Date: 1976
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 26.6 x 24.8 cm (10 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.535
- Rights and Reproduction: © John Goodman 1976
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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