Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography

Mar 4–June 25, 2005

Person with hair in curlers and small objects attached to their face, looking over their shoulder.
Person with hair in curlers and small objects attached to their face, looking over their shoulder.

Hannah Wilke, S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Curlers), 1974. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm) Image: 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm) Mount (board): 40 × 27 × 1/16 in. (101.6 × 68.6 × 0.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and partial gift of Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt 2005.33. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography was curated by Elisabeth Sussman.


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