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Barrow, Thomas F.
American (1938-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: From the series Cancellations (Brown) - Flight Field
SERIES TITLE: "Cancellations", 1973-1977

1974
toned gelatin silver print
24.6 x 34.4 cm.
Museum Purchase with National Endowment for the Arts support
GEH NEGS: 21513 20220
75:0156:0002

EXHIBITION HISTORY: ""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink) "from the series Cancellations (brown)-Flight Field" (signed) "thomas f. barrow [sic] /74"

copyright, Thomas F. Barrow

NOTES: Cataloged 4/84, DZ "With their patent corruption of the straight photograph the Cancellations investigate the issue of the original and the reproduction. Because of the accuracy and verisimilitude of the photographic image, it is frequently equated with the subject. By altering the print Barrow distinguishes it as a reproduction, calling into question the distinction between the thing and an image of it, between reality and illusion. Here Barrow reminds us that we are looking at a fascimile of reality." --Inventories and Transformations; The Photographs of Thomas Barrow--, p. 112, 1987.

SUBJECT: artifact, billboard

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