New Year's Eve, NYC, (Kiss me, stupid), from "Photographs: The Early Works" / Joel Meyerowitz
About this Item
Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.158.11
- Title
- New Year's Eve, NYC, (Kiss me, stupid), from "Photographs: The Early Works"
- Artist
- Joel Meyerowitz
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1938
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1965
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Selma & Gerald Lotenberg
- Dimensions
- 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm (11 in. x 14 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- Black and white gelatin silver print capturing a man and woman embracing surrounded by pedestrians and below a movie theater marquee bearing the words "Kiss me, stupid."
- Subject Matter
- From Meyerowitz's earliest works reflecting the influence of photographers Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand in the tradition of black and white street photography. The work captures a couple's embrace on New Year's Eve beneath a theater marquee and reflect's Meyerowitz's interest in the spontaneous and human elements of street photography subjects.
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- celebrations
- embraces
- entertainment buildings
- figures
- kissing
- sign
- signs
- walking
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- events
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- recreation buildings
- recreation structures
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- words
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1140 x 752
- File Size
- 110 KB
- Record
- 2000/2.158.11
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2000-sl-2.158.11/2000_2.158.11.jpg
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/musart:2000-SL-2.158.11
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"New Year's Eve, NYC, (Kiss me, stupid), from "Photographs: The Early Works"; Joel Meyerowitz." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2000-sl-2.158.11/2000_2.158.11.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2025.
