Portrait of the Author as a Young Woman

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Portrait of the Author as a Young Woman

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United States, 1930, printed circa 1951
Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 13/16 × 7 1/8 in. (22.38 × 18.1 cm) Primary support: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (23.81 × 19.05 cm) Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm) Frame: 24 × 20 × 2 in. (60.96 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm)
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection (AC1992.197.1)
Photography
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas.  the camera i:  Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles:  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas.  the camera i:  Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles:  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
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Exhibition history

  • Imagining the Modern Self: Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 29, 2012 - January 21, 2013