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Merry Alpern
#41994

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High-contrast black and white photograph, grainy, showing a figure's clasped hands and dark-jacketed torso bisected by a vertical bar, with bright horizontal bands of light below

Merry Alpern, #4, 1994, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Merry Alpern
Title
#4
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1994
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 17 3/4 × 12 1/8 in. (45.1 × 30.8 cm) Primary support: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.32 × 40.3 cm) Mat: 23 7/8 × 17 13/16 in. (60.7 × 45.3 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
AC1996.92.1
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© Merry Alpern

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