Modernist glass-faced building with lawn and trees, black and white – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Modernist glass-faced building with lawn and trees, black and white, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Modernist glass-faced building with lawn and trees, black and white
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A broad glass front rises above an open lawn and mature trees, the kind of transparent facade that marked many modernist library buildings after the Second World War. Architects of that period used steel frames and large panes to bring daylight deep into reading rooms and to tie the building to its grounds, so the landscape is part of the design. In black and white, the contrast among the reflective glass, the pale grass and the dark tree canopy becomes the main subject, with shape and light doing the work that color would otherwise do.
| Original scan | 6,152 × 5,092 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15343_JohnCrerarLibraryFrontview |
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