Les musiciens (The Musicians)

Jean Depara · 1975

This one's called Les musiciens (The Musicians) — a photograph by the Congolese artist Jean Depara, nineteen seventy-five. It's gelatin silver print, printed later, about 50 by 60 centimeters.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed later · Dimensions 19 11/16 × 23 5/8" (50 × 60 cm) Frame: 21 × 27 1/4 × 1 1/2" (53.3 × 69.2 × 3.8 cm) · Credit The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection. Gift of Jean Pigozzi

Hanging beside it in The Paul J. Sachs Galleries: Sposa togolese disintegrata (Disintegrated Togolese Wife), Petit Londa et son ami L Groupe Odeon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled, Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), Market

More by Jean Depara here: Un Jazzeur (Jazzman), Una Moziki, Le Progrès (The Progress)