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Larry Silver
Newsboy holding papers1954

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a Black man standing on a beach, back to the camera, reading a newspaper with partially legible headlines, buildings and beachgoers visible behind him

Larry Silver, Newsboy holding papers, 1954, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Bruce Silverstein, digital image © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Larry Silver
Title
Newsboy holding papers
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1954
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 13/16 × 13 7/16 in. (24.92 × 34.13 cm) Primary support: 13 15/16 × 16 15/16 in. (35.4 × 43.02 cm) Mat: 18 × 22 in. (45.72 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Bruce Silverstein
Accession Number
AC1998.106.7
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

Copyright
© Larry Silver