Edward Ruscha

[Various Small Fires and A Glass of Milk Contact Sheet]
1964

A collage of black and white film negatives featuring various images, including a hand pointing, a bottle on a surface, and multiple exposures of a fire with smoke. The negatives are arranged in a grid pattern against a white background, with some frames overlapping or askew, creating an abstract composition.
A collage of black and white film negatives featuring various images, including a hand pointing, a bottle on a surface, and multiple exposures of a fire with smoke. The negatives are arranged in a grid pattern against a white background, with some frames overlapping or askew, creating an abstract composition.

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Date
1964

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)

Accession number
2004.570

Series
Various Small Fires and a Glass of Milk

Edition
Possibly 1/1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

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