Beaumont Newhall
1980s
Studio backdrop in use by an itinerant Guatemalan photographer

Cibachrome
Private collection of Ann Parker
This backdrop of an angel is discussed in:
 
Avon Neal, "Folk art fantasies: photographer's backdrops", Afterimage, March-April, 1997
 
Ann Parker and Avon Neal, Los Ambulantes: The Itinerant Photographers of Guatemala, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982)
 
The original photo is housed in the collections of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA.
 
Scan kindly provided by James Wyman (11 Feb 2010).
 
LL/34326