Aaron Siskind, Old Yuma Jail

Max Yavno

1947

  • Titles Aaron Siskind, Old Yuma Jail (Proper)
  • Artist Max Yavno, American, 1911 - 1985
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm) image: 13 3/4 × 19 3/8 in. (34.9 × 49.2 cm) mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.225.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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