Alvaro Sosa, Angola, Louisiana

June 24, 1999

Deborah Luster

Associated Names
Deborah Luster

Artist, American, born 1951

The image depicts a man standing in a field of crops, surrounded by lush vegetation. He is photographed from head to toe with his hands behind his back. The man has a mustache and short hair, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, white undershirt, jeans, and rubber boots with trousers tucked in. There is a white plastic bucket on the ground nearby. In the background, several other people work in the field, with a vast landscape extending into the distance and some distant structures or trees visible on the horizon. The photo is in sepia tone.
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Provenance

Julia J. Norrell, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, incised upper right: 80; center: L.S.P. / Angola, Louisiana / Alvaro Sosa / d.o.c. #98260 / d.o.b. 5.13.55 / p.o.b. Guatemala / entered LP 1981 / Main Prison / work. Field line; bottom left: photo 6.24.99; bottom right: CA/p

Wikidata ID

Q64146361

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