Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: HEYDN, Doris
Photographer: ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel
Title: Untitled [Gathering in graveyard, Day of the Dead, Mexico], ca. 1942
Event Date: ca. 1942
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.096820

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] Day of the dead / Mexico / religion; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink and graphite] Credit: [black star] / Doris Heydn / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with past] The graveyard is the center of the festival. Young and old / gather here to pray, sing, gossip, eat, and even to sleep. / Photo Manual [sic] Alvarez Bravo

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MEXICO / DAY OF THE DEAD
Retouching: N