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Street Vendors, Warsaw by Roman Vishniac — VisualArtsDB

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Street Vendors, Warsaw

Street Vendors, Warsaw

Street Vendors, Warsaw

1935–1938

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 27.9 × 27.3 cm (11 × 10 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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