Walead Beshty

The Excursionist Views (Oriental Garden 1983, day for night, cinemascopic)
1983, printed 2005

A black and white photograph of a row of townhouses with arched entryways, taken at night with stark lighting casting shadows on the buildings and surrounding trees. The image is presented as a stereoscopic pair, intended for viewing with a stereoscope to give a three-dimensional effect. The photograph is framed with a black border.
A black and white photograph of a row of townhouses with arched entryways, taken at night with stark lighting casting shadows on the buildings and surrounding trees. The image is presented as a stereoscopic pair, intended for viewing with a stereoscope to give a three-dimensional effect. The photograph is framed with a black border.

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Date
1983, printed 2005

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 47 5/8 × 94 5/8in. (121 × 240.3 cm) Image (Sight, Each): 29 7/8 × 37 1/4in. (75.9 × 94.6 cm) Frame: 49 1/2 × 96 5/8 × 2 3/4in. (125.7 × 245.4 × 7 cm)

Accession number
2006.9

Series
The Excursionist Views

Edition
2/3 | 2 APs

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Henry Nias Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/26167

Walead Beshty
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