The Walt Whitman Archive
Pictures & Sound
Gallery of Images
| Date: | Early to mid-1880s |
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| Place: | Philadelphia |
| Photographer: | Thomas Eakins |
| Note: | This photo group is part of Eakins's "naked series" and is labeled simply "Old man, seven photographs." The model bears a striking resemblance to Whitman; for a plausible case that this may be a photo of Whitman "undisguised and naked," see Ed Folsom, "Walt Whitman's 'Calamus' Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 193-219. |
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| Credit: | J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California |
| ID: | 115 |
