Man on Hands and Knees on Sidewalk with Boy Squatting

Helen Levitt

About 1940

  • Titles Man on Hands and Knees on Sidewalk with Boy Squatting (Descriptive)
  • Artist Helen Levitt, American, 1913 - 2009
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions image: 2 5/16 × 2 1/8 in. (5.8 × 5.5 cm) sheet: 2 11/16 × 2 1/8 in. (6.9 × 5.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The John Hagefstration Collection, AFI.112.2022
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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