Untitled (Good Friends) (from the series Miami, South Beach)

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Untitled (Good Friends) (from the series Miami, South Beach)

Artist Gay Block (American, born 1942)

Date1982-1985 (printed 2013)

Mediumpigment print

DimensionsImage: 18 13/16 × 23 7/16 in. (47.8 × 59.5 cm)
Support: 22 1/8 × 24 in. (56.2 × 61 cm)
Mat: 22 3/4 × 27 1/2 in. (57.8 × 69.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from Edward Osowski in honor of Gay Block's marriage to Billie Parker, 2014

Object number2014.11

DescriptionTwo women standing next to one another with linked arms, wearing sunhats, sunglasses, and cones for protecting their noses from the sun. The woman in white is wearing a scarf tied around her neck and has a cane in her right hand. The women in a pastel patterned top is holding a sweater in her left hand. Beach and several palapas are visible in the background.
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Emuseum Notes

Fascinated by the Jewish inhabitants of South Beach, in Miami, Florida, Gay Block made portraits of many of the elderly charcters she encountered there, including these two friends out for a stroll. What she found was a community dedicated to enjoying life in the Florida sunshine, playing cards and dominoes and singing songs in Yiddish. By the mid-1980s, this retirement playground was eclipsed by a culture of youth and fashion that dominates it today.

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