Gus Kayafas
Artist
Mike Mandel
(American, born 1950)
Date1975
MediumPhotolithograph
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 inches (7.94 × 5.56 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.89 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.67.38.79
SignedCopyright printed on card verso, bottom, in black: "Gum by Topps Chewing Gum, Brooklyn / Litho by Mike Roberts, Berkeley / © Mike Mandel"
InscribedName printed on sheet recto, bottom, in white: "Gus KAYAFAS"
Statistics and quote by respective artist printed on card verso, in black: "Height: 5’ 10”/ Weight: 184 / Born: New London, Conn. / Home: Concord, Mass. / Throws: Right / Bats: Right FP: Polycontrast / FC: Leica FF: Tri-X / FD: Microdol-X / FPh: Harry Callahan / Gus Kayafas / There’s a story about a naval photo- / grapher whose job during WWII was to / film the take-offs and landings of / carrier-based planes. He believed / his assignment was charged with moral / urgency, and he devoted himself to it / accordingly. One day a bomb detached / itself from a returning plane and / bounced across the flight deck toward / him. The footage, which survived, / showed how he stood his ground, how / he kept the bomb perfectly framed as / it bounced wildly across the deck / toward him. –James Baker Hall"
MarkingsNumber printed inside baseball image, on card verso, upper right, in black: "79"
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