Real Estate #90922
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
2014.159.1.2
Art Historical Context
Henry Wessel's *Real Estate #90922* (1990) is a striking chromogenic print, a color photographic process that emerged in the mid-20th century and gained prominence in the 1970s–90s for its vibrant, durable dye-transfer qualities. This intimate image, measuring just 6 × 9 inches, exemplifies Wessel's mastery of the medium, capturing everyday scenes with a deadpan precision characteristic of his street photography roots and association with the New Topographics movement. That influential 1975 exhibition highlighted artists who documented the American landscape's transformation through suburban s...
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...