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Asphalt, Tokyo by Shomei Tomatsu — VisualArtsDB

Asphalt, Tokyo

Asphalt, Tokyo

1960

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 23 × 22 cm (9 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Mount: 31.2 × 29.9 cm (12 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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