- Untitled #3
- from the series One
Sheet: 23 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (60.6 × 50.5 cm)
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Ken Ohara’s series One comprises nearly 1,000
portraits of randomly selected people on the streets of New York, each
wide-eyed face photographed frontally and up close, printed large, and framed
tightly. With its serial nature, deadpan technique, and randomly sampled
subjects, One fell squarely within the parameters of
1960s conceptual art and was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1970
exhibition Information, an important summation of that
movement. At the same time, Ohara’s series posed questions about individual
identity and the nature of portraiture: In what way are we all alike? What sets each of us apart as unique?
Provenance[Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: ONE – 1970 PAGE 3 // Ken Ohara [signed]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom left: 3
Signed in pencil, verso, center: Ken Ohara
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