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Sol LeWitt

The Area of Manhattan Between the Places Where Sol LeWitt Has Lived! 115 E 34th St., 185 Ave.C, 42 Montogomery St., and 117 Hester St.

Description

Maker

Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007 b. Hartford, Connecticut)

Title

The Area of Manhattan Between the Places Where Sol LeWitt Has Lived! 115 E 34th St., 185 Ave.C, 42 Montogomery St., and 117 Hester St.

Year

1977-1978

Medium

  • Cut gelatin silver print on mount

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Cut gelatin silver print on mount

Dimensions

22.2 x 6.7 cm (8 3/4 x 2 5/8 inches) (irregular)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Glenn Gissler

Object Number

2011.110.39

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Performative Self-Portrait
May 13, 2023 – Nov 12, 2023

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What constitutes a self-portrait? These conceptual examples by Ann Hamilton, Vito Acconci, and Sol LeWitt put pressure on this category. Hamilton used her mouth as a pinhole camera, capturing this image by using light that entered through her open lips. The four stills by Acconci are from a video performance where he plucked out all the hair around his naval as an exploration of the masculine body. There is no body present in LeWitt’s aerial photograph of Manhattan, but it delineates four spaces where he lived. Taken together, these works each highlight ways that photography becomes an active tool to understand the self.

–Conor Moynihan, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

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For a series of cut-out photographs in the 1970s, Sol LeWitt worked from commercially produced aerial photographs of New York City and cut geometric forms from them based on a group of related location points.

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Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007 b. Hartford, Connecticut)
The Area of Manhattan Between the Places Where Sol LeWitt Has Lived! 115 E 34th St., 185 Ave.C, 42 Montogomery St., and 117 Hester St., 1977-1978
Cut gelatin silver print on mount
22.2 x 6.7 cm (8 3/4 x 2 5/8 inches) (irregular)
Gift of Glenn Gissler 2011.110.39

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