Untitled
1975 · Gelatin silver print
18 × 14 5/16" (45.8 × 36.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jeffrey Silverthorne
American, 1946
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Photography: New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
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Jeffrey Silverthorne was an American photographer known for large-scale black-and-white images of architectural decay, industrial sites, and institutional spaces. Working primarily from the 1970s onward, his formally composed photographs documented the material evidence of American infrastructure and abandonment with meticulous attention to light and surface texture. His work formed part of a broader postwar reassessment of the built environment as a subject for sustained artistic inquiry.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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