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Irving Penn – Doug, Hells Angels (San Francisco), 1967
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THE INCREDIBLES

This Hell’s Angels motorcyclist writes no songs of protest. His actions, his very appearance, says all he wants to say to us. Thus, a lifestyle becomes a statement about the world and, in a sense, a work of art. Irving Penn went to San Francisco to photograph some of the people who outrage and lure us being what they are. Looking past current rages and entertainment, Penn placed these people in a neutral, ageless environment. His pictures, accompanied only by fragments of conversation are addressed not just to the now but to the days to come.

–Look magazine, January, 1968

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Herbert Gehr

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Franceso Giusti
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Franceso Giusti

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Closeup of daguerreotype of unidentified man with ptosis (drooping of an eyelid) by William Bell, 1852. Bell was the Army Medical Museum’s main photographer during the Civil War.

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