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Worded photograph

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:

Travaux Publics [Public Works] / Foolen, Peter, editor; Barry R; Benson S; Clark TA; Coppelmans D; Devereux R; Finlay IH; Fulton H; Gordon D; Holzer J; Jugnet AM; Kosuth J; Locher T; Long R; Renno R; Waanders H; Weiner L; Zaugg R., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27643-28725
Scope and Contents The prints in this portfolio are language based, generally as conceptual texts. Ian Hamilton Finlay contributes a silkscreened text, printed in alternating green and purple letters, refering to gardens, ruins and the French Revolution. The text of Hamish Fulton relates to his walks in the country. Jenny Holzer lists "Truisms" in a print that has been folded. A black and white photograph of a brick wall by Joseph Kosuth is overlaid with a printed quote from in Dutch by Piet Mondrian. Richard Long presents "A Cloudless Walk" printed in white capital letters on a sky blue background. Lawrence Weiner's silkscreened print "The Salt of the Earth Mingled with the Salt of the Sea" gives an appearance that these words have been handcolored with red crayon. Remy Zaugg made an aquatint composed of three words, Grauw Beeld Blind, in a gray color on a background of a lighter gray color. Hans Waander's silkscreened concrete poetic print is composed of the words, Kingfish, kingfisher, fisherman,...
Dates: 1996

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. No.2/Win., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-01669-1705
Scope and Contents

Cover depicts Rimma Gerlovina's photograph "Breathe Eat," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Une Baignade, Asnieres, 1884 - 111 Years On, 1991

 Item — Box 126: [Barcode: 31858072458288]
Identifier: CC-01234-1265
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Torok reproduced a translucent fragment of a Seurat painting "Une baignade à Asnières," with a computer in which its clarity is obscured according to his ideas by the effects of the presumed passage of time, exposure to environmental pollutants and occurrence of catastrophic weather conditions. These conditions are listed in bold type face partially overlaying each of the six images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Untitled] / Jackman, Sandra., 1985

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Identifier: CC-08196-8357
Scope and Contents

The photograph is mounted on a folded card. The note on the card to the Sackners gives Jackman's impressions after her first visit to the Archive: "We really did not have the slightest conception of the scope of your terrific collection. I'm still digesting it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Voyage(r): A Tourist Map to Japan / Sligh, Clarissa T.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35004-36725
Scope and Contents

This book records Sligh's travels in Japan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Waiting On The Golden Time / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1985

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Identifier: CC-62597-47759
Scope and Contents

A head shot of Rehfeldt is depicted with the title written across his face - waiting for the Berlin wall to collapse! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Want: [****] Four Letter Word. ., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30321-31730
Scope and Contents

The colored photographic portraits of nude, young, pierced males and females have suggestive commands printed on them in capital letters, e.g., control me, need me, pursue me. A personal story is printed in a dotted typography that is vaguely related to the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Was Tun? Mr. Lenin / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03166-3215
Scope and Contents

The title is written across a photographic reproduction of a bronze statue of Lenin made by N.A. Andrejew in 1932. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Weeks 2nd Edition / Weiner, Hannah ; Rosenthal, Barbara ; Bernstein C., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48822-69857
Scope and Contents

Each page is a snippet of statements in the media written over a 50 week period and the photographs are video stills from the media. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008