Curtis Mann
Second Sky

Second Sky
Second Sky
Second Sky
ArtistAmerican, born 1979
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Second Sky
Date2010
MediumChemically altered chromogenic prints
DimensionsFrame: 60 × 82 × 2 1/2 in. (152.4 × 208.3 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Zoe and Joel Dictrow
Object number2022.703
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Aiming to reintroduce “the complex and the unfamiliar” into images of conflict (photographs that by nature reduce complex sociopolitical matters to simple images of good versus bad or right versus wrong), Curtis Mann radically alters color prints of conflict images, varnishes portions of the photographs, and bleaches away the unvarnished portions to create compositions in which only partial truths can be perceived. The visual shock of the work leads the viewer to question the nature of photographic truth and those elements that might not be depicted or understood in any photograph or situation.



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