Jacobson, Bill
American (1955-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Song of Sentient Beings # 1530
PUBLISHED TITLE: Songs of Sentient Beings (1530)

1995
gelatin silver print
55.5. x 43.5 cm.
Museum Purchase: Charina Foundation Purchase Fund
GEH NEG: 47173
97:0643:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: 7/9

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jacobson, Bill & Kertess, Klaus. --Bill Jacobson, 1989-1997.-- Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. pl. 31.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 727.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "New Treasures: Recent Acquisitions to the Collections", US, NY, Rochester February 20 - June 6, 1999.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Songs of Sentient beings # 1530 1995 7/9" (signed) "Bill Jacobson"

copyright, Bill Jacobson

NOTES: Catalogued 6/97, DZ. "A New York-based photographer, Bill Jacobson creates some of the most haunting and resonant images in current photography. During the eighties and early nineties, he worked primarily as a commercial photographer. But in 1992-93, he emerged on the international scene with 'Interim Portraits,' a series of male portraits composed of ghostly, shadowy figures. ... In a more recent body of acclaimed work, with the rather Whitmanesque title 'Songs of Sentient Beings,' he continues to explore themes of desire and loss as they are bound by memory. In the modern era, photography has replaced oral language as the repository of personal and social memory. Intellectually and instinctually, Jacobson recognizes the unique role photography plays in defining a remembered past. His 'Songs of Sentient Beings' articulates this role through a formal language that revels in evocation and suggestion, rather than factal precision or exactitude. ...The figure appears as if they are continually receding from view, falling into a distance, or fading into distant memory...." [Therese Mulligan, 4/97] Published title from --Bill Jacobson, 1989-1997--.

SUBJECT: portrait, male