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Horse on the Seashore, San Francisco

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1968

Artist:

Eve Sonneman
American, born 1950

About this artwork

Eve Sonneman became known for works that combine straight photography with a more conceptual practice. From around 1969 to 1974, she produced black-and-white diptychs, searching her film rolls to find two adjacent frames marked by a shift in gesture or evidence of the passage of time and then printing them together. The doubled images undermine the predatory idea of the perfect “shot” as well as the argument that truth is located in any single moment. Hugh Edwards purchased three photographs from Sonneman in 1969, the year she completed her BFA from the University of New Mexico and before she had begun exhibiting internationally.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Eve Sonneman

Title

Horse on the Seashore, San Francisco

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1968

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image/paper: 12.1 × 34.2 cm (4 13/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Mount: 27.9 × 38.8 cm (11 × 15 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Photography and Media Purchase Fund

Reference Number

1969.75

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