Out My Window, Brooklyn, Snow, from the series Out My Window

2007

Departing from the voyeuristic tradition of street photography, Gail Albert Halaban creates her carefully staged images with the full permission of her subjects. The vantage point of this photograph shows the division between the apartment residents and the surrounding city, suggesting the inevitable visibility and exposure of urban life. Halaban explores the dichotomy of exposure and concealment, which is especially pertinent in today’s moment of social distancing and of monitored behavior in the digital age.

Medium: Pigmented inkjet print mounted on foam core
Dimensions: image: 14 7/8 × 22 in. (37.8 × 55.9 cm)
sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
support: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Carol Ballock
Accession Number: 2010.178.1
Geography: Depicted Brooklyn, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Photographs
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography

Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 248–49, no. 54, fig. 1

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

inkjet prints, pigment prints

Subject

Women artists

Edition

5/10

Marks

verso, bottom center, typed on sticker in black ink, vertically: \r\nRobert Mann Gallery // 210 Eleventh Avenue New York, NY 10001\r\n\r\nverso, bottom center, typed on sticker in black ink, horizontally:\r\nGail Albert Halaban // Out My Window, Brooklyn, Snow, 2007 // 20x24 inch archival pigment print // Printed in a limited edition print. // in this format, this print is #5/10. \r\n

Signed

verso, bottom center, on sticker in blue ink: Gail H. Albert Halaban

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