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Billy Monk
The Catacombs, 30 September 1967, 1967; printed 2011

Artwork Info

Artwork title
The Catacombs, 30 September 1967
Artist name
Billy Monk
Date created
1967; printed 2011
Classification
photograph
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
10 1/16 in. × 14 15/16 in. (25.56 cm × 37.94 cm)
Date acquired
2012
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase
Copyright
© Estate of Billy Monk
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2012.118
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

Billy Monk had no formal training in photography when he began taking pictures of the patrons at the Catacombs, a seedy nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked as a bouncer.

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