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Asphalt, Tokyo by Shomei Tomatsu — VisualArtsDB

Asphalt, Tokyo

Asphalt, Tokyo

1962

Medium: Hand-colored gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 23.7 × 23.5 cm (9 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 25.5 cm (10 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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