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Wide Skull (A), New York by Irving Penn — VisualArtsDB

Wide Skull (A), New York

Wide Skull (A), New York

1993

Medium: Platinum-palladium print
Dimensions: Image: 28.4 × 48.6 cm (11 3/16 × 19 3/16 in.); Paper: 37.5 × 59.5 cm (14 13/16 × 23 7/16 in.)
Genre: platinum/palladium print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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skullsskeletonsphotographyplatinum/palladium printstill lifephotographmoving lightphotographic process

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