About this artwork
These two prints are photograms, photographic images made without a camera. Liz Deschenes modeled them on a diagram of vision by the exhibition and graphic designer Herbert Bayer, who taught at the influential Bauhaus art school in the early 20th century. Bayer wanted to illustrate the arcs traced by a viewer’s eye. Deschenes’s enlargement of Bayer’s diagram appears to swallow our sight. To make the two prints, she exposed chromogenic (color) paper until it reached a lustrous black. What we see, as a result, includes a ghostly reflection of ourselves.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Liz Deschenes
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Title
- Untitled (H.B.)
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 2014
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Medium
- Chromogenic prints (2)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Artworkers Retirement Society; Photography Gala Fund; through prior gift of Jeffrey Hugh Newman, Michael D. Wolcott, Boardroom, Inc., Mary and Leigh Block Collection and Louise Lutz
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Reference Number
- 2016.23a-b
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