Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Creator: MITCHELL, Peter
Date: 1967
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 4 x 5 inches; 10.16 x 12.7 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0779.0002

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed: [adhered with tape] Canadian personalities: / MOISHE SAFDIE [underscored] / Architect: designer of Habitat 67, the building / expressing a new concept in housing which is the / symbol of the Montreal World Fair, Expo 67. / Moishe Safdie was born in Israel in 1939, of / Syrian Jewish parents. He settled in Canada in / 1955. He first presented the idea of Habitat / as his thesis while studying architecture at / McGill University. / He is married, and has two daughters. / OPS Moishe Safdie with a model of Habitat. The / construction at Expo 67 is in the form of a hollow / pyramid, but the units are designed so that they / may be arranged in any shape. / Please acknowledge: photograph by / PETER MITCHELL / CAMERA PRESS 911928)LONDON 7857-34; handwritten: 9722 [circled] / stamped: B DEC 11 '70; stamped: RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / MAY 2 1967 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY; stamped: PHOTO BY / PIX INCORPORATED / 236 EAST 46TH STREET / NEW YORK 17 / TEL YUKON 6-7540 / Please Credit CAMERA PRESS - PIX / A LICENCE IS GRANTED ONLY TO THE / PUBLICATION TO WHICH [obscured] / [obscured] R / [obscured] R- / [obscured] E / [obscured] R; stamped: M MAY 18 67 [struck through; printed: [newsprint adhered with tape] Camera Press / Moshe [sic] Safdie, the architect, with a / model of one of his projects.; stamped: [adhered with tape] PUBLISHED IN N. Y. T. / DAILY JUL 17 '80; stamped: [illeg.]; stamped: JUL 16 [illeg.] [struck through]

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection