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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Port-au-Prince
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.

Port-au-Prince

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1983-1986, printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (25.2 × 25.1 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.2 × 27.6 cm)
SignedPrinter's stamp, with negative and print date and signature in graphite on verso
Credit LineGift of George Stephanopoulos
Object number2010.10.7
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white photograph of an open square in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Two men in hats are seated in the foreground as a group of mainly women stroll through the open space carrying buckets and baskets on their heads.
Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Merci Gonaives_, (Clintondale, New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988), 11.