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Artist/Maker
Bill McDowell
(American, born 1956)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2015
MediumArchival inkjet print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (19.1 × 31.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.8.6
Not on view
Description"Bill McDowell is a photographer living in Plattsburgh, New York. This diptych of two images is from his project Ground, a series of photographs taken from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) archive of “killed” negatives. These negatives that had been damaged with a hole punch by the FSA staff in the 1930s. McDowell’s sequence of photographs relates to land and agriculture, and is mediated by the manner in which the killed negative’s black hole abstracts subject, space, and time. With this, he creates a dense narrative connecting contemporary and Great Depression Americas." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
Additional Details
Provenance
2020: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Markings
No markings noted.
Signature
Signed "Bill MCDowell" on verso at left center in pencil.
Inscribed
"27/50" on verso at left center in pencil.
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