Dessau

Iwao Yamawaki · 1931

Before you is Dessau — a photograph by the Japanese artist Iwao Yamawaki, nineteen thirty-one. Gelatin silver print — about 26 by 21 centimeters. You can pick out the staircase.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 10 7/16 × 8 3/8" (26.5 × 21.3 cm) · Credit Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther

Hanging beside it in Gallery 511: Grain Elevators and Lightning Flash, Lamesa, Texas, Bearing Spring

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Stairwell, Williamsburg, "A Sea of Steps," Wells Cathedral, Paul Cadmus, Nantucket