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Twins Shoe Repair Shop, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A." by Dawoud Bey — VisualArtsDB

Twins Shoe Repair Shop, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A."

Twins Shoe Repair Shop, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A."

1976

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 15.5 × 22.8 cm (6 1/8 × 9 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 27.6 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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