Marion Faller
Scallop Squash Revolving

Scallop Squash Revolving
Scallop Squash Revolving
Scallop Squash Revolving
ArtistAmerican, 1941–2014
ArtistAmerican, 1936–1984
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Scallop Squash Revolving
  • from the series Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion
Date1975
PlaceEaton, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 12 7/16 in. (18.1 × 31.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number81.97
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Marion Faller, a photographer with great wit interested in the everyday quirks of human nature, and her husband, Hollis Frampton, an experimental filmmaker who focused on the serial nature of his medium, often worked together. One of their best-known collaborations, Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion, married their respective interests, looking to the history of photography in a conceptual satire of the sequence.


 


As Faller and Frampton explained, “[Eadweard] Muybridge, having once consciously fastened upon time as his grand subject, quickly emptied his images as nearly as he could of everything else. His animals, athletes, and subverted painter’s models are nameless and mostly naked, performing their banalities, purged of drama, if not of occasional horseplay, before a uniform grid of Cartesian coordinates, a kind of universal ‘frame of reference.’ ” Following his lead, they humorously animated inert vegetables to enact various pointless activities on a backdrop that implies scientific legitimacy.


Provenance[Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1981.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited Photographic Masterworks: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Glassell School January 23 - March 4, 1990
Exhibited: "A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Lower Jones and Masterson Galleries, October 14 - December 30, 2001.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil " 121 scallop squash revolving ( var.' Patty Pan ' ) / from: / 'Sixteen Studies from / Vegetable Locomotion' / 1975 / by: Marion Faller & Hollis Frampton "
verso below inscription " Marion Faller / Hollis Frampton "

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