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Bill Wyman by Gary S. Davis, Allen Ginsberg — VisualArtsDB

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Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman

Gary S. Davis Allen Ginsberg

1980–1990

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 13.8 × 20.8 cm (5 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.) sheet: 20 × 25 cm (7 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US

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