{"data":{"id":"27516","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":27516,"topgoose_id":15921,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":27516,"title":"Despair","display_artist_text":"Anne Collier","display_date":"2006","accession_number":"2006.20","dimensions":"Sheet: 37 1/4 × 45 5/8 in. (94.6 × 115.9 cm)\r\nImage (Sight): 36 5/8 × 44 15/16 in. (93 × 114.1 cm)\r\nFrame: 38 1/8 × 46 7/16 × 1 1/2 in. (96.8 × 118 × 3.8 cm)","medium":"Chromogenic 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":"AP 1/1 | Ed. 4","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Collier, \u003cem\u003eDespair\u003c/em\u003e, 2006. Chromogenic print, sheet: 37 1/4 × 45 5/8 in. (94.6 × 115.9 cm)\r\nImage (Sight): 36 5/8 × 44 15/16 in. (93 × 114.1 cm)\r\nFrame: 38 1/8 × 46 7/16 × 1 1/2 in. (96.8 × 118 × 3.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2006.20. © Anne Collier\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDespair \u003c/i\u003eis one of a series of photographs of self-help tapes that Anne Collier purchased in a thrift store (others include \u003ci\u003eAnger, Doubt, Anxiety, \u003c/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGuilt\u003c/i\u003e). Positioned against a pristine white backdrop, an unspooled magnetic tape is rendered almost shadowless and clinical. The emotional resonance of the word \u003ci\u003eDespair \u003c/i\u003econtravenes the neutral style of the photograph, suggesting a deeper turmoil beneath its cool surface. Like many of Collier's photographs of record sleeves, posters, magazines, and self-help manuals, the swirl of tape takes on the quality of an abstract drawing. Her work borrows equally from the legacy of West Coast Conceptual and Minimalist art and pop psychology, especially the self-help movement of the 1960s and 70s, in an attempt, as she puts it, “to draw analogies between these territories.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A white cassette labeled \"Despair\" sits with its magnetic tape unraveled into a tangled mass.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:29:09.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:11.344-05:00","images":[{"id":107786,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/27516/2006_20_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"10203","type":"artist"}]}}}}