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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2814
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Mulhall family, sharecroppers, Ozarks, Arkansas)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas, Ozarks
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285894

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 19.5 x 24.6 cm (7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, along top edge, left to right, graphite: No FSA no Wife + child of destitute Ozark mountaineer., 1935
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6032-M1
  • inscription: verso, lower left to lower right, graphite: Family of destitute Ozark mountaineer. Arkasnas, 1935
  • label: verso, lower center

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2814
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 55
  • Serge Tisseron, El misterio de la cámara lúcida: Fotografía e inconsciente, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain, 2000), p. 116, plate 16

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
  • Power of Pictures: Social Documentary Photography in America, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 11/27/2004 - 01/16/2005

Verification Level

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