the story-tellers, part 50

erwin blumenfeld, self-portrait with mask, new york, ca. 1958

carnival, rome, photographed by herbert list, 1949

skew mask photographed by roger ballen, 2002

untitled photographed by man ray, 1928

lisa lyon in gas mask photographed by robert mapplethorpe, 1982

3 men in masks, cuzco, peru, photographed by irving penn, 1948

women fire watchers, london, photographed by lee miller, 1940

audrey hepburn & george peppard in breakfast at tiffany's, 1961

new york photographed by helen levitt,  ca. 1942

boarding house - roger ballen

stefanus, 2001

mimicry, 2006

bite, 2007

eulogy, 2004

fragments, 2005

the gagosian gallery presents "boarding house" by photographer roger ballen taken between 2004 and 2008.

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It is difficult to explain this place except that I think it exists in some way or another in most people's mind.

-Roger Ballen