Santa Barbara, California
1977
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 30.8 × 45.4 cm (12 1/8 × 17 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.6 × 50.5 cm (16 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Sandra S. Phillips
Accession Number
2022.140.19
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...