Milagros de la Torre
Belts Used by Psychologist Mario Poggi to Strangle a Rapist during Police Interrogation

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Artist Milagros de la Torre (Peruvian, born 1965)Peruvian, born 1965

CulturePeruvian

Titles

Belts Used by Psychologist Mario Poggi to Strangle a Rapist during Police Interrogation
from the series Los pasos perdidos

Date1996

Place depictedLima, Peru

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 11/16 × 15 5/8 in. (39.9 × 39.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 1999

Object number99.493

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by Latin American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, "Contemporary Latin American Photography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collection", October 3, 2001 -January 27, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, upper right: "102890-C"
The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: "BELTS USED BYPSYCHOLOGIST MARIO POGGI / TO STRANGLE A RAPIST DURING POLICE / INTERROGATION / 'LOS PASOS PERDIDOS' Milagros de la Torre / Lima, Perú 1996 / 7/15"

The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower left "Milagros de la Torre"

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