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Max Yavno
Street Talk1946

Not on view
Black and white photograph of five young people with brown skin standing on a city sidewalk in front of a storefront, mid-conversation, in vintage mid-20th-century clothing

Max Yavno, Street Talk, 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Yavno
United States, active California, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1911-1985
Title
Street Talk
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1946
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 8 5/16 × 7 5/8 in. (21.11 × 19.37 cm) Primary support: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.48 cm) Secondary support: 13 × 11 1/16 in. (33.02 × 28.1 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Accession Number
M.82.137.2
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
© Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation