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Henry Wessel
Southern California1985

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Black and white photograph of a shirtless, muscular man in sunglasses seated behind a low painted brick wall in front of a building marked 'Ocean Sands'

Henry Wessel, Southern California, 1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lewis Baltz, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Henry Wessel
Title
Southern California
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1985
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 10 3/8 × 15 11/16 in. (26.35 × 39.85 cm) Primary support: 13 15/16 × 17 in. (35.4 × 43.18 cm) Mat: 18 × 24 in. (45.72 × 60.96 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lewis Baltz
Accession Number
AC1998.216.32
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
© Henry Wessel

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