Jimmy Hoffa, Lake Orion, Michigan
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Jimmy Hoffa, Lake Orion, Michigan
- Artist: Neil Selkirk (American, born England, 1947)
- Date: 1975, printed 1978
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 19 in. × 13 1/8 in. (48.2 × 33.4 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.69
- Rights and Reproduction: © Neil Selkirk
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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