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New York, NY by Dawoud Bey — VisualArtsDB

New York, NY

New York, NY

1977

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 46 × 30 cm (18 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Paper: 50.5 × 40.5 cm (19 15/16 × 16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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