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Seagulls
1949 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 92.1 x 122.4 cm (36 1/4 x 48 3/16 in.)
Frame: 111.8 x 147.3 x 3.8 cm (44 x 58 x 1 1/2 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sid Grossman
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Photography
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None documented
5
Institutional Exhibitions
14
Works in Collection
24
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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New Standpoints: Photography, 1940�1955
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
No image
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
No image
In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
No image
The Artists' New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
No image
Image of Freedom
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1941–1942
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Sid Grossman was an American photographer who documented street life and social conditions in New York during the 1930s and 1940s, working exclusively in black and white. He co-founded the Photo League, a collective dedicated to socially conscious photography. His practice combined darkroom expertise with a documentary approach that positioned photography as an instrument for witnessing urban experience and labor.
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