Category: Photography
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Friday Photo: ‘Jazzmen’ by Villeglé
“Jazzmen,” Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, 1961, torn posters mounted on canvas, on view in “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980” at The Met Breuer, on loan from the Tate -
‘Positively No Filipinos Allowed’
I came across this image while looking up something else. I couldn’t find the name of a photographer for it, though some say it is likely a hotel in Stockton, California, in and around 1930. Though I had read about such signs, especially in the great Carlos Bulosan book America is in the Heart, I hadn’t seen one before.There is something visceral and powerful about this image. How dark it is. How well-used the door, floor, and walls look. It doesn’t appear to be a place of wealth; rather, it is a place on the margins of American economic security and who gets counted as belonging.
