File:Gursky Shanghai.jpg

Andreas Gursky, Shanghai, 2000, C-print mounted to plexiglass, 119 x 81 inches

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Source: by permission of the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, which represents the artist. Copyright Andreas Gursky

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