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John Pfahl

Red Setters in Red Field, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1976

Description

Maker

  • John Pfahl, 1939 - 2020, American

Title

Red Setters in Red Field, Charlotte, North Carolina

Year

1976

Medium

Color chromogenic print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • chromogenic color print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 x 10 cm (3 1/8 x 3 15/16 inches)

Identification

Edition

3/78

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Ellen Carey

Object Number

2011.10.6

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

To create this image, John Pfahl placed two perfectly camouflaged Red Setters in a field of red dirt. Pfahl has also constructed green crosses from stakes and
string, adjusting for perspective so that they appear identical in size and superimposed on the picture plane. The crosses recall the reticular lines that appear in NASA’s pictures of the moon’s surface. Pfahl uses the landscape as a site for constructing humorous and illusionistic tricks, photographically transporting the dogs to the moon.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Red Setters in Red Field, Charlotte, North Carolina with the accession number of 2011.10.6. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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