Shipwreck on Malibu Beach

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Shipwreck on Malibu Beach

Man Ray

Date
about 1945
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum

From the almost invisible people at the left of the composition, the scale of this weather-beaten carcass Man Ray photographed on the beach in Malibu can be judged. This fascinating found object, looking like a stranded whale, is actually the hull of a ship washed ashore.

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