3 Stooges / Robert Beckley

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Accession Number
2009/2.98
Title
3 Stooges
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
born 1934
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date
2001
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Creation Place 2
United States (nation)
Dimensions
31.1 cm x 41.3 cm x 2.5 cm (12 1/4 in. x 16 1/4 in. x 1 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Photograph
Primary Object Type
black and white print
Physical Description
This black and white photograph has a horizontal format depicting three headshots of men with their faces obscured. There are handdrawn forms- a cone on the face of one man and a hexagram (six-pointed star; Star of David), a tiny square and a square divided into four parts below the headshots.
Subject Matter
This is a photograph of wall graffitti that was taken in Paris in 2001. Robert Beckley was a professor and Dean of the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. This photograph was displayed at an exhibition of his work at the Slusser Gallery following his retirement. His artist statement explains, "The abstract forms one can find on the walls of a city have become my canvas. The urban landscape is for me what the natural landscape is for others. The inessential background of the city becomes the foreground in my lens."
Primary Keywords
graffiti
photographs
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Image Size
2552 x 1759
File Size
180 KB
Record
2009/2.98
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"3 Stooges; Robert Beckley." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.98/2009_2.98.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 18, 2024.
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