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Tent City, Houston, Texas by Joel Sternfeld — VisualArtsDB

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Tent City, Houston, Texas

1983

Medium: Chromogenic print, printed 1995
Dimensions: 13 9/16 × 17" (34.5 × 43.2 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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