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Ruth Bernhard

In the Box - Horizontal, 1962

Description

Maker

Ruth Bernhard, 1905-2006, American (b. Germany)

Title

In the Box - Horizontal

Year

1962

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed at lower right | numbered "40/50" on foam core, bottom center

Identification

Edition

40/50

Type

Credit

Gift of the Estate of Ruth Bernhard

Object Number

2007.119

Exhibition History

Presence Through Process

January 15 - June 20, 2010

Ruth Bernhard was widely recognized for her transcendent nudes, in which she sculpted the female form with shadow and light to ambiguous ends. In this image she seems to challenge the cultural expectations of the female form by creating a metaphor for the constraints of gender. This model cannot be fully contained by the box, symbolically or literally.

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