Girl Holding Popsicle

Mark Cohen, Girl Holding Popsicle, 1972, printed 1983, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dene and Mel Garbow, 1992.73.4, © 1972, Mark Cohen
Mark Cohen, Girl Holding Popsicle, 1972, printed 1983, gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 x 17 in. (35.5 x 43.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dene and Mel Garbow, 1992.73.4, © 1972, Mark Cohen

Artwork Details

Title
Girl Holding Popsicle
Artist
Printer
Publisher
Date
1972, printed 1983
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 14 x 17 in. (35.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Copyright
© 1972, Mark Cohen
Credit Line
Gift of Dene and Mel Garbow
Mediums Description
gelatin silver print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure female — child — torso
Object Number
1992.73.4
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1992.73.4

Artwork Description

In Girl Holding Popsicle, a young girl twists shyly as she poses before a graffiti-inscribed brick wall. Mark Cohen took this photograph spontaneously as he passed through a back alley. Cohen does not hesitate to get assertively close to the strangers he meets in his hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Many of his photographs were made without looking through a viewfinder, and so remained a mystery even to Cohen until they were developed.


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