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Conversation Club

Conversation Club
 1937

Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1973
© Public Domain
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Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

“We (photojournalists) are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.”
Margaret Bourke-White, 1963

Artwork Details

Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
26.3 × 25.4 cm (image) 27.6 × 35.4 cm (sheet)
Inscription
typed on accompanying paper label: Conversation Club, 1937 / (from the book "Middletown U.S.A" by sociologists Robert and Helen J. Lynd)
stamped in ink vertically on reverse u.r.: ]29
Accession Number
PH126-1973
Department
International Photography
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1973
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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