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Maker(s):Porter, Eliot Furness
Culture:American (1901-1990)
Title:Ferry, Chongqing, Sichuan from the portfolio China
Date Made:n.d.
Type:Photograph
Materials:Dye transfer print
Measurements:Mat: 16 x 20 in; 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE: front, lwr. r. (black ink): Eliot Porter
Accession Number:  UM 1985.28.6
Credit Line:Gift of Ronald and Nola Sher
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Description:
Color photograph of a river scene with two ferry boats facing diagonally to the right floating on a muddy river. Several other flat bottom boats surround the ferries at the upper and lower right. Several people can be seen, one on the bow of the smaller ferry and a pair of people sit on boxes on a small barge or boat at the lower right.

Tags:
boats; Chinese; cities; documentary photography; harbors; peasants; photography; rivers; transportation; travel; water

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