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.
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
PhotographyObject Type
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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