- She became an expert shoplifter.
- from the series Re-visions
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
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In 1976
Marcia Resnick began work on Re-visions, a series of photographic
reconstructions of memories of her early life. Like those of other women
artists of her generation, including Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie
Simmons, Resnick’s humorous images of female adolescence transforming into
womanhood explored questions raised by feminism. Staging ideas for the camera
rather than seeking out an equivalent in the tangible world—“making” a photograph
by creating and arranging the elements, rather than “taking” a photograph—has
gone through cycles of popularity, and Resnick’s images were produced
concurrently with a burst of new activity by other Conceptual photographers in
the 1970s.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Paul M. Hertzmann, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, recto, bottom center below image: She became an expert shoplifter. [in cursive]
Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right below image: MARCIA RESNICK
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom edge: 6791
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right corner: Marcia Resnick
Artist's Mark in black ink, verso, bottom right corner: Marcia Resnick
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right corner: Marcia Resnick
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