View from Brooklyn Bridge
Jerome Liebling American
Not on view
After serving in the Army in North Africa and Europe in World War II, Liebling returned to NewYork City and enrolled in art and design classes at Brooklyn College. While studying with the painter Ad Reinhardt, he picked up the camera and began his half-century career as a socially concerned photographer, filmmaker, and professor, first at the University of Minnesota (1949) and then at Hampshire College (1969). This scene of bathers enjoying a summer day is among his first photographs and clearly shows the influence of
Reinhardt, whose own compositions of the same year are characterized by large tonal fields with small marks and gestures.
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