Babe Bows Out
1948 · Gelatin silver print
10 × 12" (25.4 × 30.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Nat Fein
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The Exact Instant
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Nat Fein was an American photojournalist known for his candid black-and-white photography of sports, particularly baseball, and urban life in postwar New York. Working primarily for the New York Herald Tribune, he developed a distinctive approach to capturing decisive moments in crowded public spaces, often isolating individual figures against architectural or crowd backdrops. His photographs documented the cultural landscape of mid-twentieth-century America with a formal rigor that elevated vernacular subject matter into lasting social documents.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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