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Foot
Foot
Foot

Foot

Artist (American, born 1953)
Date1995
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (16.5 × 14 cm)
Frame: 10 × 9 × 1 1/4 in. (25.4 × 22.9 × 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Bobbie Foshay, 2017
Object number2017.24.31
DescriptionClose view of the top of a human foot emerging from a dark background at the center of the composition; big toe at right.
eMuseum Notes
While the subject of this photograph is easily recognizable as a human foot, this ordinary appendage is given a mysterious air by the photographer. By isolating it from its connection to a leg and to its function, he invites us to see it freshly, as a form floating in space.
On View
Not on view
Terms
  • figures (representations)
  • studies (visual works)
  • feet
  • dance
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