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Shakeia by Dawoud Bey — VisualArtsDB

Shakeia

Shakeia

1996

Medium: Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Dimensions: Each image: 60.5 × 51 cm (23 7/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Each paper/mount: 75 × 56 cm (29 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Genre: photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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African AmericanphotographyChicagoPolaroid (TM) filmphotographportraitsinternal dye diffusion transfer process

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