Via Flavia Gioia, Praiano, Italy, 11 November 2012 Artist: Jan Cunningham (American, born 1956, M.F.A. 1985)

2012

Photography

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

The figurative and the abstract intertwine in this photograph, which Jan Cunningham took in Praiano, Italy. Shadows of clothes on a laundry line evoke the human bodies that might wear them, but their shapes, distorted and monochromatic, are abstract. The temporal and spatial distance between the viewer (here in the present) and the person who wore the clothes (in the past, and absent from the image) is heightened by visual layers of separation, including the camera lens and the silhouettes. The shadows thus suggest that photographs, works of art, and even human experiences are mediated by personal, sensual interpretations.

Medium

Inkjet print

Dimensions

image: 6 7/8 × 5 in. (17.5 × 12.7 cm)
sheet: 13 × 9 1/2 in. (33 × 24.1 cm)

Credit Line

Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Fund

Accession Number

2014.23.6

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Photographs

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Purchased from the artist
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 200–201, no. 34, fig. 1
Object copyright
Copyright Jan Cunningham
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

inkjet prints

Subject

Women artists

Edition

2/3

Marks

Recto LL embossed: (c)JC\r\nVerso C stamped in black ink: (c)Jan Cunningham

Inscriptions

Verso LL in graphite: Via Flavia Gioia, Praiano, Italy 11 November, 2012\r\nLR in graphite: 2012//Printed//2013\r\nLR in graphite: 2/3

Signed

Verso LR in graphite: JC

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