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
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.
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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
South Carrollton Avenue, from the series "The Offing"
South Carrollton Avenue, from the series "The Offing"
Casey Ruble
Date: 2012
Medium: Paper collage
Object number: 2013.4.1
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
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Firelei Báez
Date: 2013
Medium: Pigmented abaca, cotton, and linen on abaca base sheet with radiograph opaque ink
Object number: 2016.7
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
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
Photo by John Bentham.
Untitled
Yelimane Fall
Date: 2009
Medium: Razor-cut calligraphy on printed textiles
Object number: 2024.3.5
Spinal Column Study
Spinal Column Study
Howard Warshaw
Date: 1959
Medium: Mixed media collage
Object number: 1996.15.5
Untitled (Artichoke)
Untitled (Artichoke)
Howard Warshaw
Date: 1959
Medium: Collage on paper
Object number: 1996.15.22
Scherenschnitte
Scherenschnitte
Calista M. Sherman
Date: c. 1846
Medium: Cut paper
Object number: 1959.171
Michoud Boulevard, from the series "The Offing"
Michoud Boulevard, from the series "The Offing"
Casey Ruble
Date: 2012
Medium: Paper collage
Object number: 2013.4.2
Photograph by Jason Mandella.
Untitled
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Date: 2010
Medium: Thread, pigment, fabric and handmade paper
Object number: 2016.4
Untitled (Baule Mask)
Untitled (Baule Mask)
Yashua Klos
Date: 2022
Medium: Pen and colored pencil on graph paper with adhered computer printouts
Object number: S2022.2.1