My Shadow" from A Child's Garden of Verses (LOC)

While waiting for the set of images we’ll load next week, enjoy a little sun and sand with this photo, which was featured in our Picture This blog post, “Caught Our Eyes: Playing with Shadows.”

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Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer

"My Shadow" from A Child's Garden of Verses

[1944]

 

1 photograph : nitrate negative.

 

Summary:

Photograph shows a boy standing on a beach looking at his shadow.

 

Notes:

- Title from caption in Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell, p. 68.

- Photograph used as illustration for A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson, photographs by Toni Frissell (1944).

- Date from publication date of A Child's Garden of Verses.

Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

- Image published in: Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 68. (Call number: TR653.F75 1994).

 

Subjects:

- Boys--1940-1950.

- Shadows--1940-1950.

- Beaches--1940-1950.

 

Format:

- Nitrate negatives--1950-1960.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "Toni Frissell Collection,"(www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/070_fris.html)

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.07092

 

Call Number: LC-F9-01-4406-043 -06

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