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Burchfield, Jerry
American (1947-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Second Degree Still Life #7
SERIES TITLE: "Second Degree"

1981
color print, silver dye bleach (Cibachrome) process
95.9 x 69.2 cm.
Museum Purchase with National Endowment for the Arts support
82:1859:0001

NON-GEH NUMBERS: #7 / #8

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Jerry Burchfield: Second Degree Series", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Corridor, September 7 - October 3, 1982.//

INSCRIPTION: print verso-(in ink) "Second Degree Still Life #7 '81" "#8" (signed) "Jerry Burchfield"

copyright, Jerry Burchfield

NOTES: Catalogued 9/2001, DZ. "By using the very basic and primative photogram, Burchfield creates an ominous sense of being below the event. Even though the objects - newspapres, fallen toy soldiers, etc. - appear actual size, they seem less real than the center photograph produced by a camera several feet above. The level of information offered in the completed image parallel the viewers' distance from the reaction to the news event. They urge us to get behind the words, to understand the significance, perhaps to dismiss the information as presented as unbelievable." [Marianne Fulton, 1982]

SUBJECT: study

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