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Shell by Edward Weston — VisualArtsDB

Shell

Shell

1927

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 24 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); mount: 40.6 × 33.8 cm (16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paperCollected by Hugh Edwards

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Edward Weston, 1939

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