Gordon Matta-Clark

Jacob's Ladder 2 (Documentation of the action made in 1977 for Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany)
1977

A black and white photograph taken from the ground up along the centerline of a soccer goal, showing the netting converging at the top of the frame with the goalposts barely visible at the peak. The perspective emphasizes the geometric patterns created by the net and the contrasting straight line of the centerline on the pitch.
A black and white photograph taken from the ground up along the centerline of a soccer goal, showing the netting converging at the top of the frame with the goalposts barely visible at the peak. The perspective emphasizes the geometric patterns created by the net and the contrasting straight line of the centerline on the pitch.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8in. (25.4 × 20.7 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 7 3/16in. (24.8 × 18.3 cm)

Accession number
2017.137

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Harold Berg

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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