Anderson & Low
Untitled (The Sunset Duel)

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Artist Anderson & LowBritish, active since 1990

Artist Jonathan AndersonBritish, born 1961

Artist Edwin Hock LowBritish, born 1957

CultureBritish

Titles

Untitled (The Sunset Duel)
from the series Manga Dreams

Date2009-2010, printed 2012

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 20 × 38 1/2 in. (50.8 × 97.8 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 44 in. (61 × 111.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern

Object number2013.81

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by LGBTQ Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAnderson & Low, a pair of artists who have collaborated for more than 20 years, sought young models in Asia whose personal styles—makeup, costume, and hairstyle—imitate the animated characters of manga and anime (Japanese comics and animation). For this photograph, they digitally imposed images of two men dressed as anime samurai onto a flat, illustrated color field background. Notice how they subtly enhanced the eyes and glossed the image, blurring the line between living subject and animated character. The resulting photograph evokes a tradition of Japanese samurai films while providing space for the subjects to further explore their self-defined manga identities.
ProvenanceArtists, London, England, 2009-2010; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2013
Exhibition History"After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 June - 8 September, 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower left: Untitled (The Sunset Duel)

Signed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower left

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