Accession Number
2009/2.98

Title
3 Stooges

Artist(s)
Robert Beckley

Object Creation Date
2001

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
12 1/4 in x 16 1/4 in x 1 in (31.1 cm x 41.3 cm x 2.5 cm);7 7/16 in x 11 1/2 in (18.9 cm x 29.2 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Joanne Leonard

Subject matter
This is a photograph of wall graffitti that was taken in Paris in 2001. Robert Beckley was a professor and Dean of the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. This photograph was displayed at an exhibition of his work at the Slusser Gallery following his retirement. His artist statement explains, "The abstract forms one can find on the walls of a city have become my canvas. The urban landscape is for me what the natural landscape is for others. The inessential background of the city becomes the foreground in my lens."

Physical Description
This black and white photograph has a horizontal format depicting three headshots of men with their faces obscured. There are handdrawn forms- a cone on the face of one man and a hexagram (six-pointed star; Star of David), a tiny square and a square divided into four parts below the headshots.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Primary Object Type
black and white print

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
graffiti
photographs