Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Can You Imagine

Can You Imagine
Can You Imagine
Can You Imagine
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Can You Imagine
  • from the series Urban Poverty
DateJanuary 2, 1989
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print with written text
DimensionsImage: 11 1/4 × 16 15/16 in. (28.6 × 43 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by an anonymous donor in memory of Frank Fajardo
Object number90.381
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceDee Wolff, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 1990.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Houston New Visionaries" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from July 28 through September 9, 1991.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Insc upper margin, recto: "CAN YOU IMAGINE \ the pleasure waking alive to live another day"
Insc lower margin, recto: "Under 59 at Almeda Road \ beneath \ people going \ some place for some reason TO DO WHAT"
Insc l.r. below image: "Houston '89 Jan 2 \ Dawn"

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