Paul McCarthy

Bat Boy and Painting, Shit Face, Shit Painting and Video, Contact Sheet

1973

Not on view

41 works in the collection
13 exhibitions

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Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver prints

Dimensions
See components

Accession number
2001.138.6a-c

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone

Rights and reproductions
© Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

API
artworks/15638

Part of a series:
Combination Photographs
13 works

Contact sheet showing black-and-white studio portraits of a seated couple and a standing photographer.

Two people lean over a seated person, appearing to examine or treat them.

Collage of multiple black-and-white and red-tinted photos showing a shirtless performer and band rehearsing.

A series of black-and-white framed photographs showing repeated poses of a shirtless man on a gray wall.

Nude male model striking varied poses on a studio stage captured in multiple contact frames.

Man making expressive gestures while his large shadow appears across multiple black-and-white photobooth frames.

Multiple black-and-white photographs showing people arranging and filling stacked tires with fluffy material in a room.

Exhibitions

A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet

Sept 25, 2009–Jan 3, 2010