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Somerset Maugham by Yousuf Karsh — VisualArtsDB

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Gelatin silver print
Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham

1950

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 48.9 × 39.6 cm (19 5/16 × 15 5/8 in.); Mount: 71 × 56 cm (28 × 22 1/16 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesportraits: male subjectphotographyportraits: subject from Great Britaingelatin silver printportraits: writerphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyportraitphotographphotographic paper

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