Israel, wedding where the traditional tent, or "huppah," poles are improvised from guns and pitchforks.

Israel, wedding where the traditional tent, or "huppah," poles are improvised from guns and pitchforks.

Photograph

Chim (David Seymour)

Maker
Polish, 1911–1956

Israel, wedding where the traditional tent, or "huppah," poles are improvised from guns and pitchforks.

1952
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 30.5 x 45.5 cm (12 x 17 15/16 in.)
Overall: 40.2 x 50.4 cm (15 13/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
Gift of Ben Shneiderman, 2006
Inscriptions verso (pencil): Seymour

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