Barbershop, Tuskegee, Alabama

© Chester Higgins

Barbershop, Tuskegee, Alabama

Currently not on view

Barbershop, Tuskegee, Alabama,

1972

Chester Higgins, born 1946, Fairhope, AL; active Alabama and New York
2021-182

Information

Title
Barbershop, Tuskegee, Alabama
Dates

1972

Maker
Chester Higgins
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
24.1 × 35.6 cm (9 1/2 × 14 in.) mount: 35 × 53.7 cm (13 3/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art
Object Number
2021-182
Signatures
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on mount verso: Chester Higgins | Barbershop Tuskegee 1972 | 1277N33
Inscription
Artist stamp on mount verso In graphite, verso, lower center: CH1-00169-SP
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs, documentary photography
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
mirrors, men, barbershops

The artist via Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 2021.

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