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Worded photograph

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:

Giovanni at 2 / Baroni, Vittore., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-24111-24563
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts Baroni's son, Giovanni, age 2 years, with an opened mouth and letraset letters and musical notes flowing from it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Halo Hell-o] , 1994

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-16144-16487
Scope and Contents

Poetic lines trace the silhouette of a woman's face. The eyebrow says insoporatble pesar (insupportable grief); the eye, madre erecta; the lips, watch out people for hell is coming back. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Haruspex / Calleja, J.M.., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-45007-47183
Scope and Contents

Also designated as Els quaderns de Mahalta No.11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Hazardous Goods / curry, jw., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27755-28877
Scope and Contents

The photographs are portions of railroad car sidings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

How beautiful in thehalf-light of the full moon woman is / Hirschman, Jack A.; Ferlinghetti L; Conz F., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-58477-10001697
Scope and Contents

The daguerrotypes represent portraits of prostitutes in a whorehouse at the beginning of the 20th century and the verses proposed as authentic anthems to feminity recall the tradition of Haiku. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

I Am Its Secret / Neshat, Shirin., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47778-68797
Scope and Contents

At Sotheby's auction a signed and dated print of an edition of 250 sold for $16,250. The original unique photograph/calligraphic drawing is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Interrupted Life, The / Artaud A ; Beuys J ; Boltanski C ; Clark L ; Drozdik O., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-08511-8680
Scope and Contents

Theme of exhibition deals with death and violence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Jabber] / Zellen, Jody., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-00109-112
Scope and Contents

Words depicted in black text of different size typefaces representing visual sounds including vibration, jangle, crashing, explode, clank, jabber, and crash appear on an abstract background with a silhouette of a solitary figure. The image is part of Zellen's preoccupation with the violence present in large cities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Jeu de Cartes Hypergraphiques / Devaux, Frederique; Isou I; Sabatier R; Hachette M; Satie A; Poyet F; Broutin GP; Roehmer W; Dupont A; Amarger M; Caraven V; Devaux F; Poyet F., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-14567-14878
Scope and Contents

Each stylized playing card depicts a photographic portrait of a lettrist artist with varied lettrist symbols and/or calligraphic styles that are printed directly on the photograph. These are associated with the visual works of the specific artists. Some markings are also directly painted onto the photographs. For some artists, the letters of their names appear as negative spaces on the photographs. Isidore Isou contributed an introduction to this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Kniga-Book / Gerlovina, Rimma ; Gerlovin, Valeriy., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10594-10800
Scope and Contents

The worded photographs are contact prints that have been drawn upon in typical Gerlovin fashion. The red and black text and line drawings with thick pen strokes consist mostly of variations upon the accompanying photographic images. In addition, the text also includes concrete poems and manifestos. Several of the worded photographs have been released as individual prints in editions. This book was a commission piece from the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989