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Title: Alexis Smith collage
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: Oversized photograph.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Alexis Smith's collages, shown above and with her at right, are created from newspaper clippings, maps, comics, posters, book covers and photos. Nearly 30 pieces of her work are on display at the Margo Leavin Gallery in an exhibition titled "Jane". Photograph dated: Spe. 14, 1985.; The tag containing a key chain states, "Deaf mute. Sir or madam: I am selling this useful key chain for my living. $1.00. Thank you". Written across the collage at the bottom is a quote, "Of course, everything's a mess. The mess is just the decor in which we live".
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078169
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b041_f3_i8
CARL0000079742
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24636
Subject: Smith, Alexis--Exhibitions
Margo Leavin Gallery
Collage--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Art--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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