Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell, Weegee

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Weegee, artist
1899–1968
Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell, 1938
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 33.8 x 26.9 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 5/16 x 10 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 1985.0082
Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2018–19 KU Common Book

“Among the many realities brought to light by Hurricane Katrina was that never again could we justifyiably deny the existence of this country within a country, that other America, which America’s immigrants and the rest of the world may know much more intimately than many Americans do, the America that is always on the brink of humanitarian or ecological disaster. No, it is not Haiti or Mozambique or Bangladesh, but it might as well be. (p. 113)

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