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Marion Palfi
Wife Of The Lynch Victim1949, printed 1977

Not on view
Black and white portrait photograph, a Black woman shown from the chest up, lit from behind by a bare bulb, looking directly at the camera in a dim interior

Marion Palfi, Wife Of The Lynch Victim, 1949, printed 1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Marion Palfi
Hungary, 1917-1978
Title
Wife Of The Lynch Victim
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1949, printed 1977
Medium
Gelatin-silver print
Dimensions
Mat: 20 x 16
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.1817.14
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© 1998 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents