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precariously close to 5 billion points of confusion: Tehran, Iran (June 6, 1989)

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precariously close to 5 billion points of confusion: Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China (May 1989)

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ringl with Glasses

Together they created an advertising photography studio titled with their childhood nicknames. The extreme close-up and unusual angle of the head here are characteristic practices of modernist photography in the 1920s and 1930s. The fact that the subject of the portrait does not look at us frustrates our desire to make a connection while suggesting a photograph’s limitations in probing the soul of a sitter.

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script a through r: script r

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shaded connected hooks

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painting

still life 1946

Object and background are collapsed into abstract geometric forms in this densely packed still life. Bright pops of color and yellow and gray tones enliven the composition. The most readily distinguishable object is the wine glass at center left.

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the familiar planets

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the familiar planets

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the picture is still • video

This video work, the picture is still • video, represents the first time that Ann Hamilton sought to animate a still photograph. Holding a single-chip surveillance camera in one hand, Hamilton slowly moved it over the surface of a black-and-white photograph of her son, “almost caressing the image, as if touching or probing its flat surface to yield something more bodily.” An important aspect of this work is the use of motion, or gesture or touch, to “see” and interpret a still image.

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precariously close to 5 billion points of confusion: Tehran, Iran (June 6, 1989)

precariously close to 5 billion points of confusion: Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China (May 1989)

ringl with Glasses

script a through r: script r

shaded connected hooks

still life 1946

the familiar planets

the familiar planets

the picture is still • video

the singing bridge

usual sense

usual sense i