A man in a hat clings to metal scaffolding above three people lifting large black barrels.

Tina Barney

The Gods Are Pounding My Head (AKA Lumber Jack Messiah) Richard Foreman

2005, printed 2009

Not on view

80 works in the collection
4 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/36937

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 10 9/16 × 13 7/16 in. (26.8 × 34.1 cm)

Accession number
2011.117.32

Credit line
Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Rights and reproductions
©️ Tina Barney

API
artworks/36937

Part of a series:
Players
67 works

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A man in a blue band-style jacket stands centered inside a blue tent.

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Young woman in a white dress holds a large snake while family members sit in the living room.

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