Boy Touching Woman’s Hair with Man Sitting in Background

Helen Levitt

  • Titles Boy Touching Woman's Hair with Man Sitting in Background (Descriptive)
  • Artist Helen Levitt, American, 1913 - 2009
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 3 ½ in. x 2 14/16 in. (9 cm x 7.3 cm) image: 3 6/16 in. x 2 6/16 in. (8.6 cm x 5.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The John Hagefstration Collection, AFI.86.2022
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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