Clarence John Laughlin

ferrotyped, mounted to black Crescent illustration board, signed, titled, and dated in white pencil on the mount, numbered '6' and annotated in ink and with the photographer's studio and reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, 1962, printed in 1978

Prakapas Gallery, New York, 2000

Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye (Aperture, 1973), p. 81

Keith Davis, Clarence John Laughlin: Visionary Photographer (Kansas City, 1990), p. 75

Peter Turner, ed., American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (London, 1985), p. 101

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 224

This ferrotyped print is in generally excellent condition. As is typical of ferrotyped prints, superficial surface scratches and an unevenness of the glossy surface are visible upon close examination. The edges and corners of the black mount are bumped. The studio and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse of the mount reads: 'Print No. _____ [numbered '6' in ink] C. J. Laughlin 627 DECATUR ST. NEW ORLEANS, 16, LA. ALL REPRODUCTION AND AD- VERTISING RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER.' The following are also annotated in ink on the reverse: 'Photo © 1976,' 'Print made by C. J. L. 3/19/78,' 'MT#3 (3/30/78),' '14929,' 'B#665,' '3/19/78,' and '#4' [circled], 'L [circled] 3/78.' The lower right corner is numbered '#1159' in an unidentified hand in pencil.
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"Everything, everything, no matter how commonplace and how ugly, has secret meanings.  Everything."

Clarence John Laughlin