Eric R. Fox

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Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, Men's Fashions, 1923-1924, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4350

Men's Fashions

Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott · 1923-1924, printed 1956 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4350

Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, Street Musicians, 1898-1899, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4351

Street Musicians

Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott · 1898-1899, printed 1956 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4351

James Van Der Zee, Portrait of a Girl, 1924, gelatin silver print with applied color, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4389

Portrait of a Girl

James Van Der Zee · 1924 · gelatin silver print with applied color ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4389

A Black woman, young man, and young boy pose against a painted backdrop in this vertical photograph. The image is monochromatic like a black and white photograph but is printed in warm tones of golden and dark browns. The man and woman have slight smiles, and all three look at us. At the center, the slender woman sits on a wooden chair with her body angled slightly to our left, though she turns her head to us. Her skin tone is a little lighter than that of the man and boy, and her hair is styled in an ear-length bob. Her scoop-neck, sleeveless, ankle-length dress shimmers as if covered with beads or sequins. She wears round glasses, dangling earrings with pearls, and short and long strands of pearls. Light catches two rings on her left hand and a bangle bracelet encircles each arm. Her shiny, high-heeled shoes have a lattice-like pattern cut into the tops around the T-straps. She holds an object, perhaps with feathers, in her lap. To our left of the woman, the young, cleanshaven man stands facing us with his weight equally balanced on both feet, positioned slightly apart. He rests his left hand, on our right, on the back of the woman’s chair and holds his flat-topped, brimmed hat in the crook of his other elbow. His dark, crisply pressed uniform has a snug fitting jacket with a high collar, shiny buttons in a row down the front, and a braided cord looped over his left shoulder and under his arm. The jacket is cinched with a wide belt and a thin leather band runs diagonally across his chest. To our right of the woman, the boy stands with one ankle crossed in front of the other and his right arm, on our left, resting on the arm of the woman’s chair. In that hand, the top of his hat is a bright white oval. He rests his other hand near the top of a child-sized cane, close to his body. His hair is cut very short. The boy’s dark sailor’s suit has white stripes around the neck and at the cuffs. A white bulldog puppy with darker spots around its eyes stands at the boy’s feet, partially hidden by fabric that hangs off a piece of furniture in the lower right. A wooden table behind the boy holds a stack of a few books and a bouquet of wilted, light colored flowers. The background behind the people has a painted or wallpapered section to our left and an arch leading to a curtained window to our right. Parts of the photograph are noticeably out of focus, particularly the background.
James Van Der Zee, Garveyite Family, Harlem, 1924, printed 1974, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4388

Garveyite Family, Harlem

James Van Der Zee · 1924, printed 1974 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4388

James Van Der Zee, Marcus Garvey, 1924, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4390

Marcus Garvey

James Van Der Zee · 1924 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4390