William Wegman

Cotto
1970

A black and white photograph showing a person's hand with a ring on the ring finger, picking up slices of salami from a stack on a plate with a half black, half white background that is splattered with a white substance, resembling a starry sky.

A black and white photograph showing a person's hand with a ring on the ring finger, picking up slices of salami from a stack on a plate with a half black, half white background that is splattered with a white substance, resembling a starry sky.

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Date
1970

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print, mounted on board

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 7 7/8in. (20.6 × 20 cm) Image: 7 7/8 × 7 3/4in. (20 × 19.7 cm)

Accession number
92.14

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund and the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© William Wegman

API
artworks/7994

Exhibitions

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002

William Wegman
53 works in the collection

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