Jump to navigation
Arthur D. Chapman Photograph Collection.
Chapman,Arthur D., 1882-1956 Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1890-1925)--Photographs
[Madison Square, looking west from under the colonnade of Madison Square Garden, 1913].
1913
The collection includes skyscrapers looming at the end of narrow streets, snow-covered parks and rooflines, bridges, boat basins, and construction sites. Greenwich Village appears in almost 20 soft-focus scenes featuring such details as laundry lines and an unattended baby carriage on Milligan Place. Two self-portraits with photographic equipment, dated 1913 and 1953, indicate an enduring interest in photography. Each image has a short title and is signed and dated.
Arthur D. Chapman was born in Bakersfield, Calif., on 12 August 1882. As an amateur photographer, he worked nights as a newspaper printer and in the afternoons turned his view camera on New York City's outdoor shapes. He took special pride in discovering compositions of pictorial interest in his everyday surroundings, and his best-known images portray non-Bohemian Greenwich Village in the 1910s. Chapman died in Hackensack, New Jersey, on 5 June 1956.
New York (N.Y.)--Photographs New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs
Black-and-white prints (photographs) Black-and-white photographs Photographs Photographic prints
This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. For more information, please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions