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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Shipbuilder, Norfolk, Virginia
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.

Shipbuilder, Norfolk, Virginia

Artist Thomas Daniel
CultureUnknown
Date1983
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 × 9 1/4 in. (20.3 × 23.5 cm)
Overall, Paper: 11 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (28.6 × 29.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist, Thomas Daniel
Object number92.6
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print of a bearded man wearing work clothes and a hard hat. The portrait of this shipyard worker is waist length.

Label TextThomas A. Daniel American (b. 1948) Shipbuilder, Norfolk, Virginia, 1983 Gelatin-silver print Gift of the artist, Thomas Daniel 92.6 Exhibition History"Light Images '90," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, July 3 - September 2, 1990. "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011.Published ReferencesLIGHT IMAGES '90 (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1990), cover; page 16.