Real Estate #911714
1991
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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
2014.159.1.20
Art Historical Context
Henry Wessel's *Real Estate #911714 (1991) is a striking chromogenic print, a photographic process that captures vibrant hues and subtle details with remarkable clarity. Measuring just 15.24 × 22.86 cm, this intimate-scale image exemplifies Wessel's mastery of everyday American landscapes. As a key figure in the New Topographics movement of the 1970s and beyond, Wessel documented the mundane poetry of suburbs, vacant lots, and urban edges with an objective, almost deadpan eye, transforming ordinary scenes into profound meditations on space and transience. The title hints at Wessel's fascinati...
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...