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Title: Coliseum statues guarded
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Robert Graham's Gateway, with its two headless figures, continues to be controversial. Critics have said the sculptures denigrate athletes by asserting their prowess is an expression of "brawn over brains." The controversial Gateway is now being guarded round the clock. Dated July 3, 1984.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00052526
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Olympics
CARL0000059347
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21256
Subject: Olympic Games--(23rd :--1984 :--Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olympic Gateway (Sculpture)
Olympics
Sculpture--California--Los Angeles
Bronze sculpture--California--Los Angeles
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Graham, Robert,1938-2008

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