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Five Boys and a Crab, Lower East Side, New York City by Danny Lyon — VisualArtsDB

Five Boys and a Crab, Lower East Side, New York City

Five Boys and a Crab, Lower East Side, New York City

1964

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 22.7 × 34.1 cm (8 15/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Mount: 56.3 × 45.6 cm (22 3/16 × 18 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paperCollected by Hugh Edwards

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