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Pope John Paul II by Yousuf Karsh — VisualArtsDB

Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

1979

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 49 × 39.1 cm (19 5/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Mount: 71.3 × 55.9 cm (28 1/8 × 22 1/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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