Object number2018.10

Allo? On Arrive!

Date1978

Artist Sanlé Sory (Burkinabe, b. 1943)

CultureBurkinabe

MediumGelatin silver print, printed later, edition 3 of 15

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (36.8 × 36.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 15 5/8 in. (49.8 × 39.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedSigned and dated (verso, in pencil)

InscribedInscribed (verso, in pencil): (title and numbered: From an Edition of 15 + 5 Artist's Proofs, Edition 3 of 15, SSan. 18374

BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 85; Sory, Sanle. Volta Photo. The Art Institute of Chicago, Steidl. Germany. 2018. Page 77; Lombino, Mary-Kay, "Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, September 20 - December 15, 2019," (Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center), 2019; Sory, Sanle. Volta Photo 1965-85. Reel Art Press/Morton Hill. London. 2017. Photo not included. ProvenanceStudio of the artist.

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistorySanlé Sory: Volta Photo, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY, April 28 - June 23, 2018; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019

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