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From close to the ground, we look sharply up at three skyscrapers that nearly meet in the empty sky in this black and white photograph. The building in front of us has more than twenty-five stories, each of which is lined with windows. The building to our left is deep in shadow as it zooms steeply into space. Sun warms the top half of the building to our right. Only a sliver of sky is visible between the left and center building, and where the three meet in the deep distance.
Berenice Abbott, Canyon, Broadway and Exchange Place, 1936, gelatin silver print, The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography, 2000.148.1
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Stuart Davis, Barber Shop Chord, 1931, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2005.99.10
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Ralph Steiner, Portrait of Louis Lozowick, 1929, gelatin silver print, Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund, 2017.97.1
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Howard Cook, Engine Room, 1930, lithograph in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1309
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Ilse Bing, Wall Street "Abyss," New York, 1936, gelatin silver print, Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff, 2001.147.68
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Arshile Gorky, Study for Mural for the Marine Transportation Building, New York World's Fair, 1939, opaque watercolor over graphite on paper mounted to board, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1971.59.1
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Alfred Stieglitz, From My Window at An American Place, North, 1931, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.1207
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Paul Landacre, The Press, 1934, wood engraving, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.184
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Alma Lavenson, Tanks, Standard Oil Company, 1931, gelatin silver print, The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography, 1999.131.1
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Louis Lozowick, Untitled (Machine Ornament), c. 1923, pen and black ink on wove paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2014.89.1
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Louis Lozowick, New York, 1923, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.145
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Paul Strand, The Docks, New York, 1922, gelatin silver print, Southwestern Bell Corporation Paul Strand Collection, 1991.216.7
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Man Ray, Decanter, published 1926, color pochoir on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.64.6
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David Smith, Untitled, c. 1932-1935, gelatin silver print, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1998.138.1
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Louis Lozowick, Crane, 1929, lithograph in black on wove paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, 1989.80.13
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Man Ray, Concrete Mixer, published 1926, color pochoir on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.64.9
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Alfred Stieglitz, From My Window at An American Place, North, 1931, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.1208
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Charles Sheeler, George C. Miller, Delmonico Building, 1926, lithograph in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.262
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Ralph Steiner, Front of Old Ford, 1929, printed 1979, gelatin silver print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2001.67.204
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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe—Hand and Wheel, 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.296
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Paul Strand, Lathe, Akeley Camera Shop, New York, 1923, gelatin silver print, Southwestern Bell Corporation Paul Strand Collection, 1991.216.8
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