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Miriam Makeba by Jürgen Schadeberg — VisualArtsDB

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Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Jürgen Schadeberg

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 44.8 × 29.2 cm (17 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.); paper: 50.5 × 40.4 cm (19 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Genre: Photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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