A black-and-white photograph of a White woman wearing a fur coat and a White man with a mustache, smoking a cigarette, wearing a tuxedo.

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable at a Movie Preview in Hollywood. 1936

Carl Mydans (1907-2004)

Date

1936, printed 1985
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 20 x 28 in.
Inscriptions

Print verso:
signed c.: Carl Mydans
inscribed: Carol [sic] Lombard and \ Clark Gable \ Hollywood Preview \ 1936 \ (My Neg) \ P
stamped: PHOTO BY \ CARL MYDANS \ CM
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the artist
Accession Number

P1985.27.72
Copyright

© Carl Mydans/LIFE Magazine, Time Inc.

Identity

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Identity explores community, celebrity, and individual representation through portraiture, delving into the idea that identity in American culture is as much influenced by individual presentation as factors that are externally determined.

Location: Off view

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