Untitled Head #12
Artist
Jin S. Lee
(American)
Date1994
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsSupport: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Joyce Niemanas, 2011
Object number2011.22.14
DescriptionSilhouette of head and shoulders in profile. Figure is all white; background is all black.eMuseum Notes
Photographer Jin Lee is known for her work in landscape photography, exploring the cycles of change in natural lake and prairie scenes. In a sharp departure from that work, her high-contrast series Heads takes on portraiture in a manner reminiscent of the traditional, cut-paper silhouettes popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The old-fashioned technique is in tension with contemporary gender, social, and racial issues about how we depict and perceive others.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- portraits
- race (concept)
- outline
- silhouettes
Russell Lee
1940 (printed 1990)