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...Banksy is a 34-year-old native of Bristol, England, named Robin Gunningham, Britain's the Mail on Sunday reported on July 13. The thread that may have unraveled the mystery was a 2004 photograph taken in Jamaica, which many - including photographer Peter Dean Rickards - say is the only known picture of Banksy. (The artist's agent, Steve Lazarides, denied that the photo - which depicts a man in jeans and sneakers crouching above a can of spray paint - is of Banksy. A spokeswoman for the artist declined to confirm or deny the Mail's report.) (See pictures of Banksy...
...With the picture in tow, the Mail canvassed Bristol, unearthing former acquaintances who identified the man in the photo as Gunningham. A former schoolmate interviewed by the paper recalled that Gunningham was a talented artist, while Luke Egan, an artist who has jointly exhibited with Banksy, told the paper that he shared a Bristol flat with Gunningham in 1998. Asked by the Mail whether Gunningham was Banksy, Egan reportedly replied, "Well, he wasn't then." Gunningham, whose middle-class upbringing bears little resemblance to Banksy's renegade persona, has vanished. (See pictures of Banksy's secret art show...
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