Kenneth Josephson

Michigan
1970

A black and white photograph featuring a hand holding a smaller photograph of the same hand, creating a visual illusion of the hand extending from the picture within a picture. The background is a textured surface, and the photo has a white border.

A black and white photograph featuring a hand holding a smaller photograph of the same hand, creating a visual illusion of the hand extending from the picture within a picture. The background is a textured surface, and the photo has a white border.

Not on view

Date
1970

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 11in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 9 × 9in. (22.9 × 22.9 cm)

Accession number
2000.240

Series
History of Photography Series

Edition
AP

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/12869

Exhibitions

Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective

Feb 21–May 26, 2001

Kenneth Josephson
18 works in the collection

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