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A woman wearing a wig and gray dress and white wedge shoes, has put down her purse to climb the back of an elephant standing in the mud.
Trying
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Trying

Artist Liza May Post (Dutch, b. 1965)
Date1998
MediumChromogenic development print on Dibond
Dimensions5 ft. 11 1/4 in. x 7 ft. 5 in. (181 x 226.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Martin Z. Margulies
Object number2005.16.22
Collections
Visual DescriptionA woman wearing a wig and gray dress and white wedge shoes, has put down her purse to climb the back of an elephant standing in the mud.
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