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Untitled Landscape II

Date:

1987

Artist:

Jeanne Dunning
American, born 1960

About this artwork

After studying sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jeanne Dunning turned to photography in 1987 to better control viewer perception through distortions in scale, perspective, and focus. At first glance, this photograph suggests a barren landscape: a sloping hill or dune seen from afar. Closer scrutiny reveals a stubbled swath of human skin, a fragment of a presumably male body rendered as strange and unfamiliar territory. This photograph, one of Dunning’s very first to concentrate on the human body, was key to the development of the deeply probing body of work dealing with issues of gender and pathology that she would make soon after.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Jeanne Dunning

Title

Untitled Landscape II

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1987

Medium

Chromogenic print

Edition

2 of 3

Dimensions

Image/paper, approx: 39.6 × 60 cm (15 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Clayton Press and Gregory Linn

Reference Number

2011.363

Extended information about this artwork

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