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White Heat #1
White Heat #1
White Heat #1

White Heat #1

Artist (American, born 1951)
Date1994
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Laurie Tümer, 2016
Object number2016.9.6
DescriptionA vertical composition with the three outlines of a blacksmithing tools, upright and side-by-side with slight overlap, ascending slightly toward the right.
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While living in El Rito, a small community in northern New Mexico, the artist lived near the blacksmith Michael Hennerty and borrowed some of his tools to make photograms (cameraless photographs). The ghostly forms created by the tools reminded him of how they look when they are “at white heat” in the forge,  intensely heated and almost transparent, and that phrase became the title of the series.
The photograph is a unique photogram made with tools from the blacksmith Michael Hennerty who was a neighbor of the artist when she lived in El Rito, New Mexico. The series title refers to the point at which the tools are “at white heat” in the forge, intensely heated and almost transparent. The series includes nine unique prints. According to artist and blacksmith Tom Joyce, the tool pictured in this image is a brush hook. The photograph was received framed and when unframed should be checked for inscriptions and other marks.

 

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