David Armstrong

Candler Building, New York City
1997

A blurry photograph of urban high-rise buildings, with a prominent out-of-focus building in the foreground against a lighter sky. The image has a dark border framing it, suggesting it may be a photograph within a photograph or viewed through an aperture.
A blurry photograph of urban high-rise buildings, with a prominent out-of-focus building in the foreground against a lighter sky. The image has a dark border framing it, suggesting it may be a photograph within a photograph or viewed through an aperture.

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Date
1997

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Silver dye bleach print (Ilfochrome)

Dimensions
Sheet: 35 15/16 × 25 7/8in. (91.3 × 65.7 cm) Image (Sight): 29 1/2 × 19 5/16in. (74.9 × 49.1 cm) Frame: 38 1/16 × 28 × 1 1/2in. (96.7 × 71.1 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
2001.50

Edition
AP 1/2 | Ed. 7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Michael I. Jacobs in honor of Steven Ames

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of David Armstong

API
artworks/13721

David Armstrong
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