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Tea House, Beijing, China by Henri Cartier Bresson, Allan Grant, Gary S. Davis — VisualArtsDB

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Tea House, Beijing, China

Tea House, Beijing, China

Tea House, Beijing, China

Henri Cartier Bresson Allan Grant Gary S. Davis

1948

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 16.4 × 24 cm (6 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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