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Barrow, Thomas F.
American (1938-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Cancellations (Brown) - Bench '28
SERIES TITLE: "Cancellations", 1973-1977

1973
toned gelatin silver print
22.5 x 34.5 cm.
Museum Purchase with National Endowment for the Arts support
GEH NEG: 21516
75:0156:0004

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink) "Cancellations (Brown) - Bench '28" "/N. 73. P. 74" (signed) "thomas f. barrow [sic]"

copyright, Thomas F. Barrow

NOTES: Catalogued 1/96, 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: architecture, bench

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