Nicholas Nixon

View of Midtown from 49th & Fifth Avenue, New York City

1975

New York skyline with the Empire State Building rising through morning haze among tall skyscrapers.
New York skyline with the Empire State Building rising through morning haze among tall skyscrapers.

Nicholas Nixon, View of Midtown from 49th & Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1975. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.3 × 25.1 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (19.5 × 24.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2003.238

Recto

Not on view

Date
1975

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.3 × 25.1 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (19.5 × 24.6 cm)

Accession number
2003.238

Edition
33/50

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/19396



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