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Gilles Peress
French, born 1946
1988
A gelatin silver print photograph that quietly stages a moment of adolescent intimacy beside a smouldering street, the artist aiming to record how ordinary life persists amid unrest.
Three girls huddled in shadow against a graffiti‑scarred brick wall dominate the left while a distant blaze, a desolate row of houses and a monolithic blank façade across the street give the scene a tense, cinematic stillness.
Representative of Peress’s documentary practice, the print shows how late‑20th‑century photography used careful composition and stark tonality to reveal the human texture and everyday consequences of political conflict.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
23 9/16 × 36" (59.8 × 91.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Family of Man Fund
Accession
336.1993
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