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[3 men, individual portraits, California, ca. 1950-1964]
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1950-1964
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.857
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Three individual studio half-portraits of different men, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1950-1964. Portrait 1 is split with right-side up portrait on left and upside-down on the right; young man with shoulder-length hair sits in a jean jacket and dark necktie turned slight left and looking directly at the viewer. Portraits 2 and 3 are split with right-side up portrait on the right and upside-down on the left; a balding man in suit with circular design necktie turned slightly right and looking directly at viewer, young man in white jacket and necktie seated on stool with hands touching at fingertips (face is crossed out on upside-down portrait). Gradient background.
1915-1939