Weegee

Eddie Cantor
c. 1960

A black and white photo of a person's upside-down head with a surprised facial expression, creating an illusion where the chin appears to be the forehead with eyes and the mouth appears to be a beard. The photo is centered with a white border.
A black and white photo of a person's upside-down head with a surprised facial expression, creating an illusion where the chin appears to be the forehead with eyes and the mouth appears to be a beard. The photo is centered with a white border.

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Date
c. 1960

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/2in. (25.4 × 21.6 cm) Image: 8 × 5 3/8in. (20.3 × 13.7 cm)

Accession number
96.240.4

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Murray & Isabella Rayburn Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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