Hannah Wilke

S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Curlers)
1974

A black and white portrait of a woman with an artistic hairstyle featuring hair rollers and bobby pins. She has several snails placed on her face and neck, creating a surreal effect. The woman is looking off to the side with a neutral expression, and her shoulders are bare.
A black and white portrait of a woman with an artistic hairstyle featuring hair rollers and bobby pins. She has several snails placed on her face and neck, creating a surreal effect. The woman is looking off to the side with a neutral expression, and her shoulders are bare.

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Date
1974

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 40 × 27in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm) Image: 40 × 27in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm) Mount (board): 40 × 27 × 1/16in. (101.6 × 68.6 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
2005.33

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and partial gift of Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt

Rights and reproductions
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Hannah Wilke
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