Manhattan island seen from directly above, towers casting long shadows across a grid of streets

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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