Ilse Bing

Dead End II (Smokestacks, Queensborough Bridge)
1936

A black and white photograph of an urban skyline with industrial buildings and smokestacks, taken from a high vantage point, possibly a bridge, with dramatic clouds in the sky. The silhouette of a bridge's structure is visible on the right side of the frame.
A black and white photograph of an urban skyline with industrial buildings and smokestacks, taken from a high vantage point, possibly a bridge, with dramatic clouds in the sky. The silhouette of a bridge's structure is visible on the right side of the frame.

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Date
1936

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 1/8in. (18.7 × 28.3 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 11 1/8in. (18.7 × 28.3 cm) Mount (board): 13 7/8 × 16 3/8in. (35.2 × 41.6 cm)

Accession number
2001.380

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bequest of Ilse Bing Wolff

Rights and reproductions
© Wichita State University Foundation

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Ilse Bing
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