High contrast image with two workers in the center adjusting a leaking pipe. The one on the right is halfway up a ladder with his hands on the pipe, which has thin streams of water flowing from it onto the worker's legs. The other worker is standing on the ground holding a long tool to the pipe, and his headlamp is a clear bright beam cutting across the frame. A small bit of wire mesh and rocky ceiling can be seen above and beyond the workers, but everything else is a deep black.
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W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978), International Nickel: Men turning a pipe, 1967–1968. Gelatin silver print, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (31.1 x 21 cm). Gift of Gary Davis, Class of 1976, 2005.056.050.
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