Letters to My Father

Letters to My Father

Photograph

Alex Traube

Maker
American, b. 1946

Letters to My Father

1976
Gelatin silver prints
11/50
Image (left side): 4 7/16 × 3 1/16 in. (11.2 × 7.8 cm)
Image: 6 15/16 × 5 13/16 in. (17.7 × 14.7 cm)
Paper: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.7 × 35.2 cm)
1977.0406.0010
Inscriptions Inscribed on recto in black ink TL: So many memories of you speak to me \ when I least expect them. They follow \ me quietly and fill my dreams as night \ turns into morning. And I awake, as \ I always do, with my heart swollen and \ with vague traces of tears in the corners \ of my eyes. For a moment the aura of the dream lingers, then slips away \ once again.

Inscribed on recto in black ink BLC: Letter #10
Inscribed on recto in black ink BC: 11/50
Inscribed on recto in black ink BRC: Alex Traube 1976. [signature]

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