Dana Scruggs
Self Portrait

Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
ArtistAmerican
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Self Portrait
DateMay 2020, printed April 2021
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 28 × 38 1/8 in. (71.1 × 96.8 cm)
Sheet: 30 × 40 1/16 in. (76.2 × 101.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2021
Object number2021.75
Not on view

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Photography
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As an in-demand portrait photographer, Dana Scruggs found the stillness and solitude of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic too strange to put into words. So, at home in New York, she adopted a dog (Bambi) for company and channeled her restless worry into stunning self-portraits. This softly lit portrait recalls the long history of odalisque imagery in art. Yet, Scruggs is not merely the sitter. As subject, maker, and director, she claims and controls every part of the work and, in doing so, reclaims the control and agency the pandemic seemed to strip from her.



ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
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