Shoeshine boy, Italy, 1953

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Shoeshine boy, Italy, 1953
Shoeshine boy, Italy, 1953
Artist/Maker (French-Swiss, born Hungary, 1906 – 2003)
Date1953
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (29.8 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.55
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Markings Verso, top middle right, black ink, (stamp): "MENTION OBLIGATORE Reportage Almasy"

Verso, bottom middle, purple ink (stamp): "PHOTO ALMASY"
Published References Illustrated: AKG Agency Identifier: AKG1000578
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "PAL-3763"

Verso, bottom middle, (pencil): "10" "Un 'sciuscia'"

Verso, bottom right corner (pencil): "Italy"
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Zulu warriors posing for a group portrait, South Africa, 1953
Paul Almásy
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.70
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.71
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.23
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.24
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.26
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Paul Almásy
Date: c. 1960 - 1970
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.27
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Paul Almásy
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.28
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Maria Luisa Learns and Teaches: Despite the tremendous development of tourism over the past ten years, despite the experiences and impressions of millions of people who visit foreign countries and sometimes foreign continents every year as tourists, students, for business, scholars or journalists are our knowledge of everyday life of people living in distant countries is still poor. Could the traveler who sees the mountains of wonderful vegetables on the market of a large South American city imagine vegetable growers who do not know how to prepare carrots, peas or spinach; six-headed families who own a large house but only a drinking glass, because no one has ever drawn their attention to the harmful effects of health when six people drink from the same glass at meal time; women who don't know how to cook rice, etc... There are countle...
Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.29
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.30
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Date: 1958
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.31