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Gelatin silver print by Frank Rodick, "Untitled No. 46"
Untitled No. 46
Gelatin silver print by Frank Rodick, "Untitled No. 46"
Gelatin silver print by Frank Rodick, "Untitled No. 46"

Untitled No. 46

Artist (Canadian, born 1959)
Date1994 (printed later)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 12 in. (20.6 × 30.5 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Frank Rodick, 2015
Object number2015.3
DescriptionBlack and white city scape with a male figure facing the camera in the foreground and another figure whose back is at the camera in the background. Image is out of focus giving the illusion of movement and confusion.
Text Entries

The original acidic cardboard backing was removed from the piece and replaced with an archival backing prior to exhibition. The original backing had one label affixed to it. The label was removed and is now in the Accession file.

In much of Rodick’s work, he uses the camera’s reputation for faithfully recording life to help us identify with his subjects and then manipulates the resulting picture in some way so that it reflects an interior rather than an exterior state of being. In this image from his early series “Liquid City,” he is working in a traditional black-and-white street photography style, but moves his camera during the exposure to shift the mood and meaning of the picture.
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