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First Steps by Jan Saudek — VisualArtsDB

First Steps

First Steps

1963

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 27.4 × 35 cm (10 13/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Paper: 28.5 × 36.2 cm (11 1/4 × 14 5/16 in.); Mount: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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