Steve Guy and Family
Alfred A. Monner, Steve Guy and Family, 1953, gelatin silver print, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © Estate of Alfred A. Monner, 79.12.4
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- Title
Steve Guy and Family
- Artist
- Date
1953
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 7 9/16 in x 9 9/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: Steve Guy and Family, graphite, bottom left below image
signature: AA Monner, graphite, bottom right below image
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
79.12.4
- Copyright
© Estate of Alfred A. Monner
- Terms
Between 1952 and 1967, Alfred A. Monner, a photographer for the Oregon Journal, extensively documented Portland’s Romany (also referred to as Gypsy) community. These families had immigrated during the 1940s to the Pacific Northwest to work in the shipyards and were ostracized because of their unusual language, dress, and traditions. Monner was granted an unusual amount of access to the small Romany enclaves situated north of West Burnside Street and along Southwest First and Second streets. The rigid formality of Monner’s portrait betrays his subjects’ wariness of the outsider in their midst, and yet the image provides a rare glimpse into a world closed off from mainstream society.
- Exhibitions
2010 Likeness: Portraiture from the Photography Collection Portland Art Museum
