Stairwell, Williamsburg

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Stairwell, Williamsburg

Creator

Charles Sheeler

American Photographer · 1883–1965

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> My interest in photography, paralleling that in painting, has been based on admiration for its possibility of accounting for the visual world with an exactitude not equaled by any other medium. The difference in the manner of arrival at their destination--the painting being the result of a composite image and the photograph being the result of a single image--prevents these media from being comp

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Date
1935
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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