SHINE!
An exhibition of shoeshine boxes and vintage photographs
April 1 - June 17, 2023
Aaron Siskind
Harlem (shoe shining)
1934
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in
Signed, titled and dated in ink by artist on verso
Acc # 7365
Mario Algaze
Ninos Limpiabotas, Quito, Ecuador
1988
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 14 x 11 in.
Acc # 9713
Morris Huberland,
Shoe Shine Boys, W. 42nd St., NYC
c. 1940s
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 7 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in white pencil on mount verso
Acc # 9751
John Albok
Shine Please, Depression
1933
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Title, date, and signature in pencil/ crayon on mount margin
Acc # 8583
John Albok
Shine Please!
1935
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 11 3/4 x 10 in.
Title, date, & signature in pencil in mount margin
Acc # 8581
John Albok
Untitled (shoeshine boys counting change)
1948
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 10 x 8 in.
Dated in pencil on mount verso
Acc # 7307
Mario Algaze
Shoeshine, Mexico D.F.
1974
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 20 x 16 in.
Signed, dated and titled in pencil on verso
Acc # 8844
John Albok
Shine Please!
1936
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on mount board recto
Acc # 6275
John Albok
Shoeshine Boy
1972
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 10 x 8 in.
Titled and dated in pencil; Madison Ave stamp (upside down) and 1980 stamp in black ink, all on verso.
Acc # 8413
John Albok
Prosperity on the Corner
1933
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 12 x 10 1/2 in.
Title, date and signature on mat margin; 1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
Acc # 7798
John Albok
Business is Business, New York World's Fair (shoeshine boy)
1939
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Title, date in blue ink, artist stamp in black ink; Title, signature in black, copyright in blue ink on mount margin
Acc # 7388
John Albok
Depression (shoeshine boy)
1936
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Titled & Dated in pencil with artist stamp on verso, Signed & copyrighted by Ilona in ink on verso
Acc # 4862
Mario Algaze
Se annucia el Carnaval de Puno, Lima, Peru
1983
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 14 x 11 in.
Signature, date, print date, title, print type in pencil on verso
Acc # 9741
John Albok
Untitled (crosses and shoe boys)
1938
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 13 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Madison Avenue stamp in black ink on verso
Acc # 7797
Dore Freeman
Bandwagon, Astaire, 1953
Gelatin Silver Print
Title written in blue ink and pencil on print verso.
Artist contact info stamped in blue ink on print verso.
Acc# 10334
Morris Engel
New York City - Fred Wagner - Shoeshine Boy, 14 St.
1948
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
Acc # 9654
John Albok
Elegant Management!
1934
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.
Title, title in Hungarian, date, signature in pencil on mount margin
Artist stamp in black ink on mount verso
Acc # 7306
Walker Evans
SHOESHINE STAND DETAIL, SOUTHEASTERN U.S., 1936
1936
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 7 x 9 in.
Acc # FSA-51
John Albok
Fight the Depression
1935
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.
Title, date and signature in mount margin
Acc # 8383
John Albok
Art of a Shoe-Shiner, NY World's Fair 1939-40
1939
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Image size: 10 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Signed and dated in black crayon on mat
Acc# 6771
Arthur Leipzig
Shoeshine Boy's
c. 1943
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print'
Image size: 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Signed in pencil with photographer's address and reproduction stamps on print verso
Acc # 9979
John Gutmann
Shoeshine, Harlem, New York
1936
Gelatin Silver Print
Signature, copyright, titled, and dated in pencil on verso
Framing included
Acc # 9961
Russell Lee
Children of Migrant Agricultural Workers...
1940
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 11 x 14 in.
Acc# 8609
John Albok
King on His Throne
ca. 1930's
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 in
Signed and titled in pencil on mount margin, artist stamp in black ink on mat verso
Acc # 4719
Featured Shoeshine Boxes

