Pelle Cass
Harvard Pole Vault

Harvard Pole Vault

© 2019 Pelle Cass

Harvard Pole Vault
Harvard Pole Vault
ArtistAmerican, born 1954
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Harvard Pole Vault
Date2019
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 24 × 35 15/16 in. (61 × 91.3 cm)
Sheet: 28 1/16 × 39 7/8 in. (71.2 × 101.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James Edward Maloney
Object number2021.478
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Photographers have long sought to capture movement in a single image, but no one has done so as dizzyingly as Pelle Cass in his Crowded Fields series. After taking thousands of photographs in the samelocation at a sporting event he then painstakingly selected and combined them in Photoshop. “I change nothing—not a pixel,” Casse says. “[I] only select what to keep and what to omit. It all happened just as you see it, just not at the same time. In fact, my composite photographs show more information and more truth about an hour than any still.”



ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower center: [signature] Harvard Pole Vault 1/10 2019
Signed in pencil, verso, lower center.

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