Louis Faurer

Philadelphia, Pa.
1949, printed 1980

Black and white photograph of a man standing in front of the Broad Street Trust Company building, wearing a hat and a sandwich board sign that reads "I AM PARALYZED." He also has a license plate hanging around his neck with the number 162.
Black and white photograph of a man standing in front of the Broad Street Trust Company building, wearing a hat and a sandwich board sign that reads "I AM PARALYZED." He also has a license plate hanging around his neck with the number 162.

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Date
1949, printed 1980

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 9 1/4 × 6 9/16in. (23.5 × 16.7 cm)

Accession number
2020.197

Edition
Edition unknown

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard Greenberg

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Louis Faurer
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