Karen Knorr
There are hardly any pink bits left. Before the War you just had to look at the map. There were marvellous pink bits all over, India, Africa, the Isles, one fourth of the world was pink, English.

There are hardly any pink bits left. Before the War you just had to look at the map. There were marvellous pink bits all over, India, Africa, the Isles, one fourth of the world was pink, English.

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Courtesy of Galerie les Filles du Calvaire

Artist Karen Knorr (American, born 1954)American, born 1954

CultureAmerican

Titles

There are hardly any pink bits left. Before the War you just had to look at the map. There were marvellous pink bits all over, India, Africa, the Isles, one fourth of the world was pink, English.
from the series Belgravia

Date1979–1981, printed 2015

Place depictedLondon, England

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsSheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2015 in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement

Object number2015.402

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

Each
image in Karen Knorr’s series portrays a resident of London’s high-end
Belgravia neighborhood paired with culturally and socially loaded text drawn
from an interview with the person portrayed. Although each person reviewed and
approved the quotation that accompanied his or her portrait, Knorr’s
upper-crust subjects seem unaware of how their remarks might be interpreted by
people of different backgrounds or social strata.

ProvenanceThe artist; [Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris]; MFAH, 2015.

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