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A Woman Waiting in the Doorway

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway

1976

Medium: Carbon pigment print, from the portfolio "Harlem, U.S.A." (2005)
Dimensions: Image: 16.4 × 24.1 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 50.5 × 40.6 cm (19 15/16 × 16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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African American21st CenturywomanphotographyharlemNew Yorkphotographdoorwaycarbon print

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