The Card Game
Photograph
1972 (photographed)
1972 (photographed)
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Photograph
Object details
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| Title | The Card Game (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | The card game, one of set of 26 gelatin-silver prints by Larry Bell, c.1970 |
| Physical description | Photograph |
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| Credit line | Acquired from Felicity Samuel Ltd., London in 1973 |
| Object history | One of a numbered sequence of 26 photographic prints (Circ.304 to 329-1973) of a grop of men playing cards, in a dark interior with a low light over the table. Those present included Ron Cooper, Chuck Arnoldi, Laddie Dill, Jim Ganzer and the artist himself. The event took place in 1972, in Los Angeles. The registered numbers have been allocated in numerical sequence according to the numbers on the back of the frames when acquired. Purchased from Felicity Samuel Ltd, 16 Saville Row, London W1 in 1973. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.306-1973 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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