Migdale, Lawrence
American (b. South Africa, 1951-)
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of Male Circus Performer-Circus Knie
1976
gelatin silver print
13.6 x 20.1 cm.
Museum Purchase
77:0019:0008
EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Lawrence Migdale", England, London, Half Moon Gallery, July - August, 1976.//
copyright, Lawrence Migdale
NOTES: Circus Knie is the Swiss National Circus. Catalogued 5/90, MMC.
SUBJECT: portrait, male
George Eastman House
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6 comments:
This guy creeps me out.
That's why I chose it. There's about 15 pictures in this story. On the whole, it's really nice.I can't get the Divshare slideshows to work reliably, otherwise I would post several pix of a story that way. Of course, the LIFE archives begs that sort-of treatment.
Weren't there a lot of circuses that wintered down by you?
A friend of mine who splits time between Jax and Orlando told me that back in the day, there were circus types all over the place.
I haven't lived here long enough to know. I lived in Kentucky for a long time, and there were only tons of Carny type things. Barnum and Bailey always came to Louisville, it being the only city large enough for a real circus. The Carny culture is pretty weird.
Might your friend be referring to all of the freaks who come to Disney from all points to make a buck?
Actually, he told me that they wintered down there and after a lot of the circuses started going under, they stayed in that area.
that had not occurred to me. makes perfect sense. I would like to find 'em.
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