Untitled
1992
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.5 × 24.1 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Accession Number
2017.121.69
About the Artist
Thomas Roma
Thomas Roma, born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, emerged as a pivotal figure in American documentary photography, dedicating his career almost exclusively to capturing the neighborhoods, institutions, and everyday lives of his native borough since 1974. Little is known about his early training, but Roma innovated his approach early on by crafting a prototype medium-format 6x9 cm camera in 1972, in...