Aerial View, Manhattan
- Year
- 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Geography
- United States
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
Provenance
One of Munkácsi's forays into aerial photography, which occupied him through the early 1940s. The extreme vantage point removes human scale entirely, reducing the city to a study in light, shadow, and pattern — a formally rigorous departure from his humanist work.
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