L’Américain (The American)

Sanlé Sory · 1970-85

This one's called L’Américain (The American) — a photograph by Sory, nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty-five. Gelatin silver print — about 21 by 21 centimeters.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions Image: 8 1/8 × 8 1/8" (20.6 × 20.6 cm) Frame: 16 1/4 × 16 1/4 × 1 1/2" (41.3 × 41.3 × 3.8 cm) · Credit Committee on Photography Fund

Hanging beside it in The Paul J. Sachs Galleries: Ever Young Studio, Accra, Le Pistolero (The Gunman)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Un Jazzeur (Jazzman), Handsplay, Paris, Petit Londa et son ami L Groupe Odeon, Vitality–Yvette Guilbert, Portrait of Evelyn Abbew, Ever Young Studio, Accra, Ever Young Studio, Accra

More by Sanlé Sory here: L’Homme à la guitare (The Man with a Guitar), L’Intellectuel (The Intellectual), Le Voyageur (The Traveler), Le Pistolero (The Gunman), Prends garde! (Look out!), Untitled