Robert Frank
Edge of Doom (The Repaving of Broadway, N.Y.C.)

Edge of Doom (The Repaving of Broadway, N.Y.C.)

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Edge of Doom (The Repaving of Broadway, N.Y.C.)
Edge of Doom (The Repaving of Broadway, N.Y.C.)
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Edge of Doom (The Repaving of Broadway, N.Y.C.)
Date1949
PlaceNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 11 1/2 in. (18.8 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.593
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Optical/Perceptual: Photographs from the Allan Chasanoff Collection," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 2008–January 4, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower left in pencil reading vertically " W "
verso lower left in pencil " Robert Frank "
verso upper left a circular yellow sticker inscribed in ink " U.A.S. 45 "

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