Real Estate #91265
1991
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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
2014.159.1.22
Art Historical Context
Henry Wessel's *Real Estate #91265* (1991) captures the stark poetry of the American landscape in a chromogenic print, a color photographic process that yields vibrant, durable images from color negatives. Measuring a modest 15.24 × 22.86 cm, this intimate-scale work invites close viewing, emphasizing subtle details in everyday scenes. As part of Wessel's later oeuvre, the title hints at his interest in urban and suburban ephemera—vacant lots, signage, and the anonymous markers of property in flux. Wessel, a pioneering figure in post-1960s American photography, blended street photography with...
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...