Weegee

Untitled (Man sleeping in basement)
c. 1940

Black and white photograph depicting a person lying on the floor with their upper body obscured by a door, next to an old-fashioned toilet in a dimly lit room with brick walls.

Black and white photograph depicting a person lying on the floor with their upper body obscured by a door, next to an old-fashioned toilet in a dimly lit room with brick walls.

Not on view

Date
c. 1940

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm) Image: 9 1/2 × 12in. (24.1 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
96.90.16

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Denise Rich

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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artworks/10449

Weegee
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