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Gelatin silver print by Carl Chiarenza, “Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500,” 2003
Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500
Gelatin silver print by Carl Chiarenza, “Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500,” 2003
Gelatin silver print by Carl Chiarenza, “Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500,” 2003

Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500

Artist (b. 1935 Rochester NY (active Boston MA))
Date2003
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 5/8 x 18 3/4 in. (37.1 x 47.6 cm)
Support: 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.5 x 50.5 cm)
Mat: 19 3/4 x 24 in. (50.2 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Joyce Niemanas, 2011
Object number2011.22.4
DescriptionCircular and triangular forms at right, vertical shape at left.
Text Entries
Throughout his fifty-year career in photography, Carl Chiarenza has redefined landscape composition through his intuitive, in-studio collages of paper and tin. Peace Warrior (Samurai) 500 is part of his series Peace Warriors, which developed out of Chiarenza’s reaction to the United States’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the resulting war. The series, like Chiarenza’s entire body of work, is rich and evocative; the remarkably dark photographs, suggesting abstracted forms of warriors, are shadowlike, masterful, and probing.
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