View from the approach of Williamsburg Bridge over the Lower East Side

View from the approach of Williamsburg Bridge over the Lower East Side

Photograph

Andreas Feininger

Maker
American, b. France, 1906–1999

View from the approach of Williamsburg Bridge over the Lower East Side

1940
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (35.3 × 27.4 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1978.0606.0347
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, OA: M-1/9 \ 60 \ 35 \ 18 \ 30 \ 36 [circled] \ View from the approach of Williamsburg Bridge \ over the Lower East Side, slums and cheap tenements. \ Looking towards the Midtown Skyline, looming like \ a mirage on the hazy horizon. \ A. Feininger © \ 1940
Stamped in black on verso, C: FOTO: ANDREAS \ FEININGER
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