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  • A black-and-white scene of a blurred cyclist in the foreground rides past a desolate landscape of block-style apartments and a smokestack with power lines stretching across the sky.

Edward Grazda

Mycroyan Apartments, Kabul, Afghanistan (housing projects built by the Soviets)
Now On View Recent Acquisition

Maker

Edward Grazda (American, b. 1947 in Queens, New York), (RISD BFA 1969, Photography)

Title

Mycroyan Apartments, Kabul, Afghanistan (housing projects built by the Soviets)

Year

1992

Medium

  • gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 31.8 x 47.6 cm (12 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches); Sheet: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: On verso, inscribed in graphite: "Edward Grazda [signed] / Kabul Afghanistan 1992" LR "MACROROYAN APARTMENT COMPLEX" LC, "98" LR corner

Identification

Edition

Open edition

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Virginia Beahan

Object Number

2023.155.12

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

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Edward Grazda (American, b. 1947 in Queens, New York)
Mycroyan Apartments, Kabul, Afghanistan (housing projects built by the Soviets), 1992
Gelatin silver print
Image: 31.8 x 47.6 cm (12 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches)<br>Sheet: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)
Gift of Virginia Beahan 2023.155.12

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