Richard Misrach
Playboy #94 (Ray Charles)

Playboy #94 (Ray Charles)

© 1990 Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

Playboy #94 (Ray Charles)
Playboy #94 (Ray Charles)
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Playboy #94 (Ray Charles)
  • from Canto XI: The Playboys
Date1990, printed 1991
PlaceUnited States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 18 3/8 × 23 1/4 in. (46.7 × 59.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Clinton T. Willour
Object number96.685
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

For nearly four decades, Richard Misrach has photographed
the American West, producing a series of poetic essays (“Cantos,” he calls
them) that explore the relationship of man and nature. In 1990, near the Nevada
Nuclear Test Site, he stumbled upon two bullet-riddled issues of Playboy that had been used by locals for
a perverse, misogynistic round of target practice. As he turned the magazine
pages, Misrach found, of course, that the violence aimed at the women on the
cover in fact shot through all layers of American society found within, from
pop celebrities to shampoo ads.




ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is signed and dated in black ink, under image: "7/25 Playboy #94 (Ray Charles) copyright Richard Misrach (1990/1991)".

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