{"data":{"id":"15795","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":15795,"topgoose_id":12482,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":15795,"title":"Plant your feet on the ground and propel","display_artist_text":"Janine Gordon","display_date":"2001","accession_number":"2002.161","dimensions":"Sheet: 30 3/16 × 44 13/16 in. (76.7 × 113.8 cm)\r\nFrame: 31 11/16 × 46 3/16 × 1 3/4 in. (80.5 × 117.3 × 4.4 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"1/3","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJanine Gordon, \u003cem\u003ePlant your feet on the ground and propel\u003c/em\u003e, 2001. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 30 3/16 × 44 13/16 in. (76.7 × 113.8 cm)\r\nFrame: 31 11/16 × 46 3/16 × 1 3/4 in. (80.5 × 117.3 × 4.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2002.161\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn her \u003ci\u003eMosh Pit\u003c/i\u003e series, Janine Gordon captures the unique combination of thrashing violence and graceful motion that occurs in a punk-rock concert's mosh pit—a crowd that forms spontaneously when audience members dance and throw themselves against each other with Dionysian abandon. In this grainy, black-and-white photograph, the frenzied action is stilled and the young men's bodily gestures suspended at moments of powerful, self-expressive beauty: one man is caught mid-dance, another is apparently restraining the pair next to him, and a third looks straight at the camera, frozen. \"I become part of the pit and ad-lib when I shoot it,\" explains Gordon. \"I'm still moshing—I have to or I'll get hurt. I do find the pits frighteningly sexual, but it's the thrill of the moment that leads me there in the first place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Young people crowded at a concert, central man with arms outstretched and eyes closed.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:58:57.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:46.017-05:00","images":[{"id":104083,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/15795/2002_161_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"7338","type":"artist"}]}}}}