Jimmy Hoffa, Lake Orion, Michigan

Neil Selkirk American, born England

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This portrait of Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was made at the influential union leader’s Michigan lake house just a few months before he disappeared without a trace on July 30, 1975. Framed within a tight space in his modest living room, Hoffa, with a cigarette in one hand and a phone receiver to his ear, appears darkly powerful yet trapped
by circumstances beyond his control. A highly accomplished portraitist and master printer for the Estate of Diane Arbus, Selkirk is known for his incisive photographs of politicians, writers, and public figures, including George Will, Don DeLillo, and Primo Levi.

Jimmy Hoffa, Lake Orion, Michigan, Neil Selkirk (American, born England, 1947), Gelatin silver print

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