Richard Misrach
Playboy #38

Playboy #38

© 1990-1991 Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

Playboy #38
Playboy #38
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Playboy #38
  • from Desert Canto XI: The Playboys
Date1990–1991
PlaceUnited States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 23 1/8 × 18 5/16 in. (58.7 × 46.5 cm)
Sheet: 23 15/16 × 20 in. (60.8 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2003, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1670
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionFor 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.
ProvenanceArtist; Robert Mann Gallery, New York.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Robert Mann Gallery, New York, 4/22/1987.
Exhibition History"Photoforum 2003", at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, September 15 - December 1, 2003.

“History of Photography I: Selections from the Museum's Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 1, 2014–February 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black, recto of sheet, lower left: "10/25 PLAYBOY #38"
Signed and dated in black, recto of sheet, lower right: "© Richard /Misrach 1990/1991"

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