Object number1975.14

Ears

Date1970-1975

Artist Athena Tacha (American b.Greece, 1936-)

CultureAmerican

Medium40 chromogenic prints, trimmed, glued to rag board

DimensionsImage (Each): 3 x 2 in. (7.6 x 5.1 cm)
Composition: 15 x 16 in. (38.1 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn reverse of mount, signed upper left corner in pencil: Athena Tacha

InscribedOn reverse of mount, by artist, upper left corner in ink: Ears [underlined], 1970-75 / © [signature]

BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 8 ProvenancePurchased directly from the artist

Vassar Exhibitions

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print

Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification

Exhibition HistoryMaking Light, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY, March 28 - June 21, 2000; On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022; Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024

Description40 individual images of different ears and arranged in a 8 x 5 grid.

Terms

Oberlin

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