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Plankton by Shomei Tomatsu — VisualArtsDB

Plankton

Plankton

1966

Medium: Chromogenic print from a digital file
Dimensions: Image: 38.8 × 27 cm (15 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Paper: 56 × 45.8 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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