Say Cheese before I click (Turkana Girl)
- Artists/Creators
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Image Bank (Creator)
Itacolor (Publisher) - Date
- [197-]
- ID #
- M/T 039.08
- Level of Description
- Item
Object Description
Item is a framed colour photograph of a Black woman with a camera from the Image Bank Office. The postcard is in colour and shows a shirtless African woman wearing beaded necklaces holding a camera up to her eyes. The image is dusty and there are several small stains and circular accretions. On the top-left of the back of the postcard is typed: "Say Cheese before I click (Turkana Girl)". On the bottom-left is typed: "Edition East Africa, 1312. Copyright by: Frank Ltd, P.O. Box 81 133 - Mombasa Kenya". The centreline has "A Real Photograph" typed along it with a small trademark of a swan on a lake with "Italcolor Couleurs Naturelles" at the top-middle. The frame is yellow with black lines as decorative markings. It has a vertical stand and has no glass in the frame. The frame was made in the USA.
Physical Description
- Physical Extent
- 1 framed postcard : col. ; 16.8 x 11.5 cm
- Material Type
- Graphic material, Object
History
- Collection
- Morris/Trasov Archive
- Credit Line
- –
- Related Exhibitions
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