About this artwork
Sourcing images from art, books, and magazines, as well as television and the Internet, Kota Ezawa explores history as a repository of iconic but imprecisely remembered images and forms. For this work, the artist used graphics software to transform a classic 1936 Walker Evans photograph, Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta, into a silhouette of shapes and colors. The lightbox-a familiar trope of advertising displays at airports, bus stops, and train terminals–suggests the transformation of this 1930s photograph into a format from contemporary life.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Kota Ezawa
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Title
- Barber Shop (1936)
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 2006
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Medium
- Chromogenic transparency and lightbox
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Edition
- 2 of 5
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Dimensions
- Image: 58.9 × 71.1 cm (23 1/4 × 28 in.); Lightbox: 61 × 76 × 6 cm (24 1/16 × 29 15/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Danielle and Martin E. Zimmerman
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Reference Number
- 2007.237
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Copyright
- © 2006 Kota Ezawa.
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