Real Estate #907218
1990
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View on museum website →Medium
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
2014.159.1.34
Art Historical Context
Henry Wessel's *Real Estate #907218 (1990) invites visitors to contemplate the quiet poetry of everyday American spaces through the lens of late 20th-century photography This chromogenic print, measuring a modest 6 × 9 inches (image) on an 8 × 10-inch sheet, belongs to the National Gallery of Art's photography collection in the CPH department. The title suggests a numbered entry in a series exploring real estate—perhaps a "For Sale" sign or property—capturing the anonymity and transience of modern living. Chromogenic prints, made via a dye-destruction process from color negatives, were a hall...
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...