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3 Steel Blocks, New York by Irving Penn — VisualArtsDB

3 Steel Blocks, New York

3 Steel Blocks, New York

1980

Medium: Platinum-palladium print
Dimensions: Image: 33.4 × 53.3 cm (13 3/16 × 21 in.); Paper: 40.6 × 61 cm (16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Genre: platinum/palladium print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographyplatinum/palladium printVanitas (still lifes)photographphotographic process

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