Pretty Boy's Playhouse, Monroe, Louisiana

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Pretty Boy's Playhouse, Monroe, Louisiana

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Alex Harris

American Photographer · 1949–present

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> I met [Walker] Evans in 1969 or '70, and I got to know him pretty well. His house was filled with collections of all kinds. He tied his photography closely to the notion of collecting, the notion that photography is essentially a matter of collecting and editing images. That had a huge influence on me. > > --Alex Harris In 1972, one year after completing his undergraduate degree at Yale where he

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Date
negative May 1985; print June 2007
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
6c7ebc9c-d0fa-4444-8d4a-b7f5819264d4

A sign reading "Pretty Boy's PLAY HOUSE" sits atop a bright, red and yellow building. Three men’s' portraits are painted on the front. The building stands alone in a clearing.

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