About this artwork
In 1970, 3M Company invited Sonia Landy Sheridan, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, to their labs to explore the artistic possibilities of their new Color-in-Color, a photocopy machine that could produce instant images. This machine was the first of its kind. Throughout the ’70s, Sheridan spent time learning its ins and outs.
Sheridan made this print by feeding the same image through the Color-in-Color machine multiple times to generate deep black and gray tones. The repeated copying also created a blurred impression of Sheridan’s face, which appears above the more detailed rendering below. A book Sheridan made documenting her time in residence at 3M appears in a case in this gallery.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Sonia Landy Sheridan
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Title
- Sonia in Time
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1970–1975
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Medium
- Electrophotographic (3M Color-in-Color) print, from the portfolio "Photographs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago" (1975)
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 21.5 × 21.5 cm (8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.4 × 27.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Students and Faculty
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Reference Number
- 1975.629
Extended information about this artwork
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