John O'Reilly

Modeling in Ingres Studio
1985

A black and white photograph depicting a staged scene with two distinct areas: on the left, a seated man in a dark coat and light pants appears contemplative, looking off to the side, with a white hat on a table beside him and a framed picture on the wall; on the right, a standing figure draped in a striped cloth poses dramatically in front of a photographer's backdrop and beside a large round reflector, with a camera tripod in the foreground. The image has a border with handwritten text at the bottom.
A black and white photograph depicting a staged scene with two distinct areas: on the left, a seated man in a dark coat and light pants appears contemplative, looking off to the side, with a white hat on a table beside him and a framed picture on the wall; on the right, a standing figure draped in a striped cloth poses dramatically in front of a photographer's backdrop and beside a large round reflector, with a camera tripod in the foreground. The image has a border with handwritten text at the bottom.

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Date
1985

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Photomontage of dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid)

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 5/16in. (10.8 × 13.5 cm) Image: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4in. (9.2 × 12.1 cm) Mount (board): 12 × 12 11/16in. (30.5 × 32.2 cm)

Accession number
2022.153

Edition
Unique

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of James Tellin in honor of Andrew Arnot and Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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