Bridge, Lake Luzerne, New York, from the series The League of Peace and Power Artist: Rebecca Soderholm (American, born 1972, M.F.A. 2007)

2011

Photography

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

In Bridge, Lake Luzerne, New York, Rebecca Soderholm captured a group of local teenagers as they were preparing to jump into a ravine from a rocky precipice. The work is part of the series The League of Peace and Power, which examines the ways in which people interact with the natural landscape. Here, a spot on the Hudson River in upstate New York is a site where boys traditionally prove their masculinity, the jump serving as a rite of passage. In Soderholm’s image, this place where the industrial and natural landscape meet becomes a threshold between childhood and adulthood.

Medium

Pigmented inkjet print

Dimensions

image: 16 × 24 in. (40.6 × 61 cm)
sheet: 21 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (55.3 × 75.6 cm)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2014.39.1

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Photographs

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Printed for YUAG by 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), 292–93, no. 73, fig. 1
Object copyright
Copyright Rebecca Soderholm, 2014
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

inkjet prints, pigment prints

Subject

Women artists

Edition

2/5

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