Untitled

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Printed by Carmine Ercolano

1983

  • Titles Untitled (Descriptive)@A Life Portfolio, Alfred Eisenstaedt's Brooklyn Bridge, Photographed for its 100th Anniversary (Portfolio)
  • Artist Alfred Eisenstaedt, American, 1898 - 1995
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.8 × 50.5 cm) image: 9 5/8 × 14 1/2 in. (24.4 × 36.8 cm) mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.91.2020.5
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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