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[Jorge Luis Borges, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Jorge Luis Borges, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], 1962 — historic photograph
[Jorge Luis Borges, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], 1962. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Jorge Luis Borges, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Jorge Luis Borges, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]

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Seated and turned to the left in three-quarter length, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges appears in this 1962 portrait from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun newspaper files. By the early 1960s he was known internationally for story collections such as *Ficciones*, and his work had reached English-speaking readers in translation. The sitting falls in the years when his reputation was growing well beyond Latin America, and newspaper portraits of writers from that period typically ran alongside reviews and feature stories. Borges, born in 1899 and dead in 1986, lost most of his sight in his later decades, a fact that shaped much of the work he produced afterward.

Created / published1962
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePublicity photographs 1960-1970.Portrait photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesNew York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
SubjectsBorges, Jorge Luis,--1899-1986.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,233 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191400

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