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Untitled (corner of McElderry Street and Aisquith Street), Baltimore, Maryland
Creator
Berenice AbbottAmerican Photographer · 1898–1991
All works by this person →> The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the v
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- 1954
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 037cb1e7-bac1-4e96-8f72-6fa20fb7b85d
Empty intersection of two streets, with streetcar tracks running down one street. One street is lined with typical Baltimore row houses. A few men stand on the street corner, in front of a barber shop.
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