Arsenio Playing Wiffleball, from "Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY" / Danny Lyon

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Accession Number: 2013/2.353
Title: Arsenio Playing Wiffleball, from "Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY"
Artist: Danny Lyon
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1992-1993; printed 2010
Credit Line: Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Inscription: signed, dated and with the "Bleak Beauty" stamp on verso
Dimensions: 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Physical Description: A man taking a swing with a bat in hand. He is wearing a baseball cap and one foot is off the ground. There is a painted brick background, on top of asphalt.
Primary Keywords: baseball; cities; men; streets
Secondary Keywords: scale; buildings and the land; field sports; open spaces; open spaces and site elements; open spaces by function; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by location; physical activities by specific context; roads; roads by form; settlements; settlements and landscapes; settlements by form; transportation spaces
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2484 x 2494
File Size: 264 KB
Record: 2013/2.353
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.353/2013_2.353.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Burch, f16 - Sports (21); 0 - Carroll, w17 - Codeswitch (18); 0 - Critical Indigeneity (16); 0 - Latina/o Studies (49); 0 - Mora, f16 - Latino/a Art - object study (11); 0 - Recreation, sport, exercise and race, gender, and class in modern US (72); Adolescence (124); Athletes & sports (114); Borders of identity in North America (84); Ethnicity and American identities - a study room selection (26); Exploring identity and identity politics in American culture (76); Latina/o art - a study room selection (19); Oppositional photography, outsider photography (181); Popular works in the study room AY2016 (40); Race and social justice (53); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); Sports, politics, and society - a study room selection #2 (18)

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Full citation: "Arsenio Playing Wiffleball, from "Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY"; Danny Lyon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.353/2013_2.353.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024.