Untitled (man in car backseat)
- Culture
- American
- Date
- 1950s
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- collected or acquired in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (9.5 × 9.5 cm)
image: 3 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (8.9 × 9.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of John R. and Teenuh M. Foster
- Rights
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- Object Number
- 299:2018
NOTES
This image by an amateur photographer conveys an aspect of road travel in the 1950s. A man surrounded by clothes in a car’s back seat gives a visceral sense of life lived entirely in a car. It conjures the restless energy of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Road, which celebrated freedom, self-discovery, and escape from the confines of society.
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