Tash and Pekoe
1987 · Gelatin silver print
10 3/8 × 15 9/16" (26.4 × 39.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Henry Wessel, Jr.
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American Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Public Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Photography: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Photographs by Henry Wessel, Jr.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972–1973
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Henry Wessel, Jr. was an American photographer known for black-and-white images of ordinary suburban and desert landscapes in California. Working primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, he employed a direct, unflinching formal approach that found visual intensity in the mundane, capturing parking lots, gas stations, and residential streets with the compositional rigor of a formalist painter. His work treats the postwar American built environment as a subject worthy of sustained aesthetic attention, devoid of irony or social commentary.
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