Jared Bark
Untitled, PB #1172, 1975

Artist Jared Bark(American, born 1944)American, born 1944

CultureAmerican

Titles

Untitled, PB #1172, 1975

Date1975

MediumGelatin silver prints

DimensionsImage: 15 7/8 × 14 3/16 in. (40.4 × 36.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 14 3/16 in. (40.4 × 36.1 cm)
Frame: 19 5/16 × 17 9/16 × 1 3/16 in. (49 × 44.6 × 3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Francis L. Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer; and Nena Marsh

Object number2018.177

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionWhen Jared Bark purchased a second-hand photo booth in 1973, it became
his private theater and studio. Rather than using it to make a series of
headshots, Bark thought more abstractly. Holding black or white board, objects,
or parts of his body in front of the camera, he envisioned a sequence of strips
that, when assembled, would form a larger composition. Referencing ideas
current in the mid- 1970s, including seriality, minimalism, conceptualism,
performance, chance, and the body, Bark’s photo booth strips are quintessential
expressions of their moment.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right below image: Bark 1975

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