Jose Garcia Villa (left) and LeRoi Jones at an Artist's Studio poetry reading

Jose Garcia Villa (left) and LeRoi Jones at an Artist's Studio poetry reading

Photograph

Fred McDarrah

Maker
American, 1926–2007

Jose Garcia Villa (left) and LeRoi Jones at an Artist's Studio poetry reading

February 15, 1959
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (19 × 18.8 cm)
Paper: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.2 cm)
Gift from the Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family, 2023
2023.0081.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on verso, TRC: 112 \ 2-15-59 \ #1
Printed on applied label on verso, T: Jose Garcia Villa (left) and LeRoi Jones now known as Amiri Braka at an Artist's \ Studio poetry reading on February 15, 1959. Villa was was co-editor \ of Wake, with Seymour Lawrence, and one of the contributors to \ the June 1945 issue, along with e.e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen, \ and Conrad Aiken.
Inscribed in red crayon on verso, C: 5 - Jose Garcia Villa \ @48%
Printed on applied label on verso, B: CREDIT LINE: FRED W. McDARRAH \ [extended caption]
Inscribed in pencil on applied label, RC: 13/8
Printed on red sticker on verso, RC: PRINTS \ Not Returned \ Billed At \ $300 EACH
Stamped and inscribed in black on verso, BR: Sonnenfeldt Collection # 29553
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