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Softening Stale Bread, Leopoldstadt, Vienna by Roman Vishniac — VisualArtsDB

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Softening Stale Bread, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

Softening Stale Bread, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

Softening Stale Bread, Leopoldstadt, Vienna

1935

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 20 cm (8 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.5 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Breadphotographic techniquesstreet photographystreet scenesJewish lifephotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographywaterphotographJewish peopleAustriaphotographic paper

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