New York in Color

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© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
New York in Color
© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1969)
Date2021
MediumCollage (hardcover)
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (51.4 × 29.8 cm) Frame: 25 × 16 7/16 in. (63.5 × 41.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2021.14
Not on view
DescriptionPhotographer Justine Kurland eviscerates her personal library of canonical photobooks by predominantly straight white men as part of her ongoing SCUMB (Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books) project, “reauthoring” the remaining fragments into a collage that she pastes onto the cover of each cut-up book.

Additional Details

Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
Signature Signed on verso on book binding left center in red ink
Inscribed "Ernst Haas New York in Color 1952-1962 [Prestel logo and name]" on verso on book binding center.
© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Hydrangea
Justine Kurland
Date: 2012 (printed 2019)
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.5.3
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Anti-Pornography Demonstration, Times Square, New York City, USA
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.9
© Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton …
Koinobori (eggs in the belly)
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka
Date: 2021
Medium: Sumi paintings on washi, linocut on washi, rice bags, indigo, kakishibu, and gyotaku on washi, konnyaku, and handmade deckle box gampi paper
Object number: 2024.15
Photograph by John Bentham.
Untitled
Silvia Taccani
Date: 1989
Medium: 12 Polaroid SX-70 prints mounted to mat board
Object number: 1991.218
Photo by John Bentham.
Wi-Jun-Jon, plate 25 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
© Vasantha Yogananthan. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes on…
Cloudscape (from the series Interludes)
Vasantha Yogananthan
Date: 2013
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.7.4
Halt!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Halt!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 17, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.255
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti of Pa-her-mer, Overseer of the Treasury
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1070-945 B.C.E.
Medium: Faience
Object number: INV.699
Image Not Available for Fragment of Female Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Fragment of Female Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.11
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti of Thent-Hor, Singer of Amun
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Red clay with black pigment
Object number: 1943.104a
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti of Thent-Hor, Singer of Amun
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Red clay with black pigment
Object number: 1943.107d
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Shabti of Thent-Hor, Singer of Amun
Date: c. 1070-656 B.C.E.
Medium: Red clay with black pigment
Object number: 1943.107c