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Artist/Maker
Keliy Anderson-Staley
(American, born 1977)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2010
MediumPigmented inkjet print (from a wet-plate collodion tintype)
DimensionsImage: 10 in. × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.8.16
Not on view
Description"For her series [Hyphen] Americans, Keliy Anderson-Staley has created a vast, broadly diverse collection of portraits with the wet-plate collodion process using nineteenth-century chemical recipes, period brass lenses, and large wooden view cameras. Each individual—identified only by a first name—defiantly asserts his or her self, resisting any imposed external categorizing system. At once contemporary and timeless, these portraits raise questions about our place as individuals in history and the role that photographic technologies have played over time in defining identity. This portrait of Kevin, captured in Syracuse, is reproduced here from a wet-plate collodion tintype." (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 "Keliy Anderson-Staley" on verso at lower left in ink.
Inscribed
"16/50" on verso at lower left in ink.
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