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Margaret Bourke-White

Circus Audience, Magnitogorsk

1930

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Margaret Bourke-White

Circus Audience, Magnitogorsk

1930

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 234 x 335 mm. (9 3/16 x 13 3/16 in.) Image: 231 x 332 mm. (9 1/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Object Number 1957.185
Magnitogorsk, a city newly made in the remote Ural Mountains for the purpose of mining iron ore and processing steel
BMA, "Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Photograph Collection," 14 June - 6 August, 1978; Traveling 1 September - 3 October, 1978.

Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.

Inscribed: Recto: on mount, at lower right, in graphite: "Bourke- / White"

Markings: Verso: on mount, at upper center, stamped in black ink: "A / MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / PHOTOGRAPH"; on blue-green label pasted at upper center: "Circus audience, Magneto-Gorsk [typed] / #3528 - Rosenberg [written in blue ink]"

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Margaret Bourke-White

born New York, NY 1904; died Stamford, CT 1971
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