Show Bill, Demopolis, Alabama / Poster, Alabama
1936
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 15.6 × 21.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-258038
African Americans owned and performed the traveling minstrel show "Silas Green from New Orleans." From 1907 to 1958 they brought jazz, ragtime, and comedy to the Southern states. Surprisingly, photography, which is expected to arrest motion, has the effect of animating this painted chorus line.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1936 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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