Weegee

Nixon
c. 1960

A manipulated black and white photograph of a man in a suit and tie with an exaggeratedly distorted mouth and chin, giving the appearance of a caricature. The name "NIXON" is handwritten in blue ink at the bottom of the image.
A manipulated black and white photograph of a man in a suit and tie with an exaggeratedly distorted mouth and chin, giving the appearance of a caricature. The name "NIXON" is handwritten in blue ink at the bottom of the image.

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Date
c. 1960

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm) Image (Irregular): 8 3/4 × 7 1/16in. (22.2 × 17.9 cm)

Accession number
96.240.9

Edition
Vintage

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

Rights and reproductions
(c) International Center for Photography/Getty Images

API
artworks/11060

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