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Richard Hambleton | Nightlife | Standing Shadow Follow Your Dreams and the beauty of purposefulRichard Hambleton (19522017) Nightlife Standing Shadow Mixed media on paper Original The Shadowman is Hambleton's defining contribution to the visual language of the late twentieth century: a silhouette, painted in black, appearing on unexpected surfaces in cities around the world. In the early 1980s, these figures haunted Manhattan's Lower East Side present at the edge of vision, suggesting danger in a city that still carried real danger on its