Shadow of The Chrysler Building

Ed Willis Barnett

1955

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A black woman, surrounded by three children, stands in the doorway of a weathered wooden house. She is reaching to use a water spigot just outside.
Dark trunk of tree in front of a Japanese temple in the snow.
In this black and white photograph, four men use a pully system to lift a piece of metal onto part of a bridge. A portion of the lettering on the bridge can be seen on the support beam on which they stand, reading "RICAN BR."
Two adjacent squares outlined in black and filled with strokes of aqua filling them. The square on the left has a blue circle in a black square in it as well as some dark green, gray, and blue paint. The area around the squares is painted various shades, including white, gray, mustard, aqua, and dark green.