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Luzia, the Favela

Gordon Parks

Luzia, the Favela

1960

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Gordon Parks

Luzia, the Favela

1960

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Image/Sheet: 340 x 237 mm. (13 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with a grant from the Florsheim Art Fund and with matching funds from Roger M. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.99
from the artist's collection
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Philip Brookman, HALF PAST AUTUMN, A RETROSPECTIVE: GORDON PARKS, exhibition catalogue (Boston: Bullfinch Press and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997), p. 215. Martin Bush, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF GORDON PARKS, exhibition catalogue (Kansas: Witchita State University, 1983), p. 100. GORDON PARKS COLLECTION, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ART, exhibition catalogue (Kansas: Kansas State University, 1983), cat. 90.

Inscribed: UC, in red crayon: MARTIN K-25; in graphite: 62170/C5-8; C, stamped in black ink: LIFE PHOTO BY GORDON PARKS; BC (graphite): PF20696

Artist

Gordon Parks

1911–2005

born Fort Scott, KS 1912; died New York, NY 2006
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