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Stairs by Gilles Peress — VisualArtsDB

Stairs

Stairs

1979–1980

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 24.1 × 36 cm (9 1/2 × 14 3/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 43 cm (14 × 16 15/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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