Artist
Benno Friedman (American, born 1945)American, born 1945
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled
Datelate 1970s
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 19 7/8 × 16 1/16 in. (50.5 × 40.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.634
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
The artist Benno Friedman asks, “If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts, what happens when you remove the rock and focus on the shadow? Or remove the shadow and leave the rock?” In this untitled work, Friedman experiments with a landscape photograph, eliminating portions and adding them again through rough drawing. “This is not about the image, but freeing the elements of the image in order that they may have their own life,” the artist notes.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
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1979
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