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Threshold (Umbral) by Manuel Alvarez-Bravo — VisualArtsDB

Threshold (Umbral)

Threshold (Umbral)

Manuel Alvarez-Bravo

1947

Medium: Gelatin silver print, No. 14 from the portfolio "Photographs by Manuel Alvarez-Bravo" (1977)
Dimensions: Image: 24.2 × 19.5 cm (9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesFloorphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyliquidfeetgelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paper

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