Out to Sea
Photograph

Michael C. Rockefeller

Maker
American, 1938–1961

Out to Sea

Michael Rockefeller's Legacy


1961
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 9 9/16 × 6 5/16 in. (24.3 × 16.1 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0329
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Rockefeller) 8/62 7) OUT TO SEA: Michael Rockefeller took this \ picture of one of his Asmat guides from an adjoining \ canoe. In such canoes he and fellow expedition mem- \ bers paddled from village to village, sometimes \ without stop for eight hours, to collect primitive \ art objects. \ Credit: MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER © 1962 MAGNUM Photos \ by courtesy of the Museum of Primitive Art

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