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Boy on Bed & Junk in Icebox, Rural Poverty
Creator
Mary Ellen MarkAmerican Photographer · 1940–2015
All works by this person →> From my earliest days as a photographer, many of my subjects have been on the edge of or outside the mainstream of our culture. Some of them were pushed over the edge due to painful circumstances and some of them managed to survive even with the most unspeakable and unjust obstacles placed in their lives. I've always tried to let my photographs be a voice for people who have less of an opportuni
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- negative 1990; print later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 30a12ef1-81a4-4c54-9cd8-102180da15ec
A young boy lies on a bed looking facing forward, behind him on the bed clothes are piled. In front of the boy a refrigerator is open showing it to be filled with toilet paper, a purse, and shoes along with egg cartons and other non-food items.
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