Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- The Catacombs, 21 November 1967
- Artist name
-
Billy Monk
- Date created
- 1967; printed 2011
- Classification
- photograph
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 15 in. × 10 in. (38.1 cm × 25.4 cm)
- Date acquired
- 2012
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase - Copyright
- © Estate of Billy Monk
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2012.119
- 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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