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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Cap Haitian (hand holding flag waving in the wind)
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.

Cap Haitian (hand holding flag waving in the wind)

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1983-1986, printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 12 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. (32.7 × 21.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
SignedPrinter's stamp, with negative and print date and signature in graphite on verso
Credit LineGift of George Stephanopoulos
Object number2010.10.19
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white photograph of a kite flying from a balcony above a slum in Haiti. A group of children on the ground look up towards the kite.
Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Merci Gonaives_, (Clintondale, New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988), 59.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Danny Lyon
1983-1986, printed later
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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
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1983-1986, printed later