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Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph]

Black-and-white photograph of a black girl in profile looking out the window of log cabin, eyes partially closed, toward an open shutter covered in tattered newspaper advertisements, one featuring an image of a white woman. The girl's hair is in braids, her light shirt slightly dirty.

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  • Black-and-white photograph of a black girl in profile looking out the window of log cabin, eyes partially closed, toward an open shutter covered in tattered newspaper advertisements, one featuring an image of a white woman. The girl's hair is in braids, her light shirt slightly dirty.

Date:

April 1937

Artist:

Arthur Rothstein
American, 1915–1985

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Arthur Rothstein

Title

Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph]

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1937

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 18 × 24.4 cm (7 1/8 × 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.7 × 25.4 cm (8 3/16 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior gift of Simon and Bonnie Levin

Reference Number

2018.386

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