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Photograph
Midget on Tricycle
Leslie Krims, (Brooklyn, NY, 1942 - )
Krims, Leslie
United States
1942
Male
7 15/16 x 10 in. (20.1 x 25.4 cm)
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Sepia-toned silver print
Sepia-toned silver print
ca. 1970-1971
1970
1971
Photograph
vero
1975.420.10
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
75.420.10DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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Photograph
Winners of Little People of America King and Queen Contest
Leslie Krims, (Brooklyn, NY, 1942 - )
Krims, Leslie
United States
1942
Male
12 x 16 15/16 in. (30.5 x 43 cm)
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overall
Sepia-toned silver print
Sepia-toned silver print
ca. 1970-1971
1970
1971
Photograph
The iconoclast photographer Les Krims, who has taught at SUNY Buffalo since 1969, has been the subject of both admiration and indignation. His staged tableaux, which he calls his “fictions,” have been influenced by Lenny Bruce, Rube Goldberg, Willem deKooning, and Peter Saul, among others. Much of his work has been an overt criticism of social documentary form and content. The portfolio from which this photograph comes was made over the course of two national conventions of the Little People of America. “These people annihilated the stereotype of ‘dwarf’ delivered by art history and socially concerned photography,” Krims says. “I thought my pictures rightly showed them as normal people who possessed oversized amounts of strong, straight, American character, and much courage.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
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Leslie Krims
1975.404
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
75.404DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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75.404DI#2
digital image
10/1/2012
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