Real Estate #90602
1990
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chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 15.24 × 22.86 cm (6 × 9 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David Knaus, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2014.159.1.12
Art Historical Context
**Real Estate #90602**, a 1990 chromogenic print by Henry Wessel, captures the artist's keen eye for the everyday American landscape. Wessel, a prominent figure in post-war photography associated with the New Topographics movement, documented suburban sprawl and incidental urban details with a detached, observational precision. This work, sized modestly at 6 × 9 inches, exemplifies his interest in the banal—here evoked by the title's nod to real estate, likely featuring signage or vacant lots that speak to the era's booming property development in the late 20th century. Chromogenic prints lik...
About the Artist
Henry Wessel
Henry Wessel (1942–2018) was an American photographer celebrated for his spare, clear-eyed photographs of everyday life in the American West and beyond. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, he studied at Pennsylvania State University and later at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he worked with the influential photographer Minor White. White's emphasis on photography as a medium of carefu...