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Matanuska Glacier, Matanuska Valley, Alaska by Joel Sternfeld — VisualArtsDB

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Matanuska Glacier, Matanuska Valley, Alaska

1984

Medium: Chromogenic print, printed 1988
Dimensions: 13 9/16 × 16 15/16" (34.4 × 43.1 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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