Eve Sonneman
The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC

The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC
The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC
The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC
ArtistAmerican, born 1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC
Date1972
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 5/8 × 13 1/4 in. (11.7 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.3055
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionEve Sonneman creates photography distinguished by its presentation in pairs, two photographs shot moments apart. The artist uses this device to visualize “gesture and innuendo and small changes.” Sonneman takes the role of detective in the scenarios she creates in New York City’s Chinatown, by selecting and pursuing a subject that is relatively unknown to her. But rather than presenting the subjects as mere documentaries, she invokes the semiotic reading of the two frames: is one frame the equivalent or metaphor of the other, or is one frame the cause or effect of the other?
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.

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