Paul McCarthy

San Francisco, Shithole of the Universe

1980

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

Not on view

Date
1980

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Six gelatin silver prints

Dimensions
Overall: 10 × 48 in. (25.4 × 121.9 cm) Frame: 14 1/8 × 52 × 1 1/2 in. (35.9 × 132.1 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
2001.138.12

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/15644

Part of a series:
Combination Photographs
13 works

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

Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection, 13 exhibitions

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