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Michael Spano
Self-Portrait with Eyepatch1987, printed 1988

Not on view
Black and white double-exposure portrait photograph, young man facing the camera with a ghostly second image layered across half his face, dramatic directional lighting

Michael Spano, Self-Portrait with Eyepatch, 1987, printed 1988, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Michael Spano
United States, New York, New York City, Bronx, born 1949
Title
Self-Portrait with Eyepatch
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1987, printed 1988
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 22 1/4 × 16 3/8 in. (56.52 × 41.59 cm) Primary support: 23 1/4 × 17 3/8 in. (59.06 × 44.13 cm) Mat: 31 3/4 × 28 in. (80.65 × 71.12 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.116
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected 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.
Copyright
© Michael Spano