Real Estate #90602 1990

"Real Estate #90602" is a 1990 photograph by American artist Henry Wessel (1942–2018). This piece is characteristic of his series that captures the mundane and overlooked aspects of urban landscapes, focusing on the everyday, often neglected structures of the built environment. Here, Wessel presents a simple composition of a boarded-up storefront with a red diamond on the facade, a red picket fence, and a discarded cooler in the foreground. This image exemplifies Wessel's use of documentary-style photography to explore themes of urban decay, suburban anonymity, and the passage of time.