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Portrait of Couple with Gun, Appalachia Women
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 1971; print later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 7a9c8fef-3a18-4c63-b9b4-88fdfc6f100d
In a wooded area, a man squats in the low branches of a tree. He holds a gun pointed towards the head of the woman who stands beside the tree.
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