Nancy Burson

Mankind (Oriental, Caucasian and Black weighted according to current population statistics)
1983–1985

Black and white portrait of a person with a neutral expression, cropped to show only the face and part of the neck. The image is grainy and appears to be an enlargement of a smaller photograph. Below the image, there is handwritten text and a signature, indicating that this is a numbered piece of artwork.
Black and white portrait of a person with a neutral expression, cropped to show only the face and part of the neck. The image is grainy and appears to be an enlargement of a smaller photograph. Below the image, there is handwritten text and a signature, indicating that this is a numbered piece of artwork.

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Date
1983–1985

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm) Image: 8 9/16 × 7 5/16in. (21.8 × 18.6 cm) Frame: 15 7/8 × 14 1/2 × 1 1/2in. (40.3 × 36.8 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
92.110

Edition
5/15

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Audrey and Sidney Irmas Charitable Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Nancy Burson
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