Eve Sonneman
The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC

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Artist Eve Sonneman (American, born 1946)American, born 1946

CultureAmerican

Titles

The Chinese Westerner, Chinatown, NYC

Date1972

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 4 5/8 × 13 1/4 in. (11.7 × 33.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.3055

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionEve Sonneman creates photography distinguished by its presentation in pairs, two photographs shot moments apart. The artist uses this device to visualize “gesture and innuendo and small changes.” Sonneman takes the role of detective in the scenarios she creates in New York City’s Chinatown, by selecting and pursuing a subject that is relatively unknown to her. But rather than presenting the subjects as mere documentaries, she invokes the semiotic reading of the two frames: is one frame the equivalent or metaphor of the other, or is one frame the cause or effect of the other?
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.

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