Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography

Mar 4–June 25, 2005

A black and white portrait of a woman with an artistic hairstyle featuring hair rollers and bobby pins. She has several snails placed on her face and neck, creating a surreal effect. The woman is looking off to the side with a neutral expression, and her shoulders are bare.
A black and white portrait of a woman with an artistic hairstyle featuring hair rollers and bobby pins. She has several snails placed on her face and neck, creating a surreal effect. The woman is looking off to the side with a neutral expression, and her shoulders are bare.

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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