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Man Coming up Subway Stairs by Roy DeCarava — VisualArtsDB

Man Coming up Subway Stairs

Man Coming up Subway Stairs

1952

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 33 × 22.2 cm (13 × 8 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.3 × 24.4 cm (13 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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