Black-and-white photograph of two men, one wearing a suit and tie and the other wearing a Mao suit

Unidentified Metropolitan Museum of Art Guard and Tseng Kwong Chi, from the series Costumes at the Met

Artist Tseng Kwong Chi (Canadian, born Hong Kong 1950, lived, worked, and died in New York, 1978 - 1990)

Date1980, printed 2014

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensionsimage: 7 in x 7 in; sheet: 10 in x 8 in

ClassificationPhotograph

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc./Tseng Kwong Chi Archive

Object number2017.4.4

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1981, printed 2014

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1981, printed 2014

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1981, printed 2014

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1980

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Tseng Kwong Chi

1980

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Tseng Kwong Chi

1980

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Tseng Kwong Chi

1980

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