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Nosferatu on Screen - MoMA

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Nosferatu on Screen - MoMA

Dateprinted 1987

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (16.5 × 23.6 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.1 × 25.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Photography Subcommittee 2022

Object number2022.465

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Winter Works on Paper, Brooklyn]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: Monster [circled]
Stamped in red ink, verso, center right: PUBLISHED // SEP 28 1987 // Daily News
Printed in black ink with some pencil additions, verso, center: From the 1923 [1921 with 1 crossed out and 3 added in pencil] silent film, Nosferatu, directed by F.W. Murnau, and // starring Max Schrek as the hideously evil vampire Orlok. Nosferatu // will be playing along with a Charlie Chaplin feature, and both films will // feature live accompaniment on a 1927 theatre organ at the University // Museum’s Harrison Auditorium, 8 p.m. Saturday, September 26. Co- // Sponsored by the Curtis Organ Restoration Society. Admission donation: $3.00.
Printed in black, verso, bottom center: Photo credit : The Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive

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