Nancy Burson
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)

Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)

© 1982 Nancy Burson, Paci contemporary gallery (Brescia -Porto Cervo, IT)

Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
ArtistAmerican, born 1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
Date1982, printed 1982
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet (at open): 13 9/16 × 13 11/16 in. (34.5 × 34.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation
Object number2020.53
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Practical superimposition techniques such as multiple exposures have been used by photographers since the early years of the medium. However, it wasn’t until Nancy Burson’s collaborations with engineers and computer scientists in the late 1970s that computer-generated composite photographs were possible. Using this technology, she explored questions of age, beauty, politics, whiteness, celebrity, and in the case of Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), gender. Burson’s work blurs the lines between genders and broadens the definition of photography, putting forth an image that, while based in mimetic reality, moved far beyond those limits.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy, 2016–2017]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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