Kota Ezawa
Harvest of Death

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Artist Kota Ezawa (German, born 1969)German, born 1969

CultureGerman

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Harvest of Death

Date2005

MediumChromogenic transparency over flourescent light

DimensionsImage (sight): 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Overall (lightbox): 22 × 26 × 2 1/8 in. (55.9 × 66 × 5.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Francis L. Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer

Object number2011.661

Not on view

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Photography

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DescriptionHarvest of Death, based on Timothy O’Sullivan’s Civil War
photograph of the same name, is one of the forty works that San Francisco-based
artist Kota Ezawa created as part of his series The History of Photography Remix. Ezawa hand-traced O’Sullivan’s
photograph of Union soldiers lying dead on the battlefield with a digital
drawing pen and pad, translating and manipulating the image into a simplified,
cartoon-like drawing.
Provenance[Murray Guy Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 March - 10 June, 2012.
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Printed gallery label on lighbox verso UC: Murray Guy 453 West 17 Street New York NY 10011 \ Kota Ezawa \ Harvest of Death [in italics] \ 2005 Edition 3 of 5 \ lightbox \ 20 x 24 in.

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