About this artwork
Kenneth Josephson was among the first generation of photographers to graduate with a master’s degree in photography from the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan; he then taught photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for over 35 years. Josephson often layers pictures within pictures, focusing on the act of image-making and investigating how a photograph differs from reality. Here, his son Matthew holds a Polaroid print of himself upside down; his finger is positioned as if he is about to click the shutter of an imaginary camera. The Polaroid in this picture reflects the photographic process—how, in a camera, an image passing through a lens is projected upside down onto the film—as well as Josephson’s interest in underscoring the photographic image as a depiction of, not a window onto, the physical world.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Kenneth Josephson
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Title
- Matthew
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1965
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
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Reference Number
- 1999.27
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Copyright
- © Kenneth Josephson.
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