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Harry Lapow Photograph:
Finding Aid
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| Title: | Harry Lapow Photograph. | |
| Dates: | – 1953. | |
| Quantity: | – 1 photograph : b&w : 33.3 cm x 23 cm. | |
Biographical Sketch
Harry Lapow, American photographer and designer, was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1909. He became interested in photography after receiving a Ciroflex camera for his forty-third birthday in 1952. He later took courses with Lisette Model (1901-1983) at the New School for School Research, and together with his close friend, Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), studied photography with Sid Grossman (1915-1955). Lapow was primarily a photographer of people and places. One of his first photographs, depicting an Italian wedding on the beach at Coney Island, was chosen by Edward Steichen for the Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern of Art (New York) in 1955. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Harry Lapow died in September 1982.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of a gelatin silver print portrait of Lisette Model and her husband Evsa that was taken in their home on Seventh Avenue, New York City in 1953. On the verso is a Harry Lapow stamp and an inscription that reads: "Harry S. Lapow 7714 Bay Parkway Brooklyn 14, N.Y. BE.6-2999 / 1953."
Source of supplied title proper: Title based on contents of collection.
Immediate source of acquisition: Donated to the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives by Jane Corkin in 1992.
Terms governing use and reproduction: Permission to reproduce or publish material from the Harry Lapow collection must be obtained from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
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Index Terms |
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| Names: | ||
| Lapow, Harry, 1909-1982 | ||
| Model, Evsa, 1901-1976 | ||
| Model, Lisette, 1901-1983 | ||
| Document Types: | ||
| Photographs. | ||
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Title of item], Harry Lapow Photograph, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
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Contact Information
Reference Services
Library and Archives
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 9N4
T 613-714-6000 ext. 6323
[email protected]
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