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Linda Nishio
Kikoemasu ka? (Can you hear me?)1980

Not on view
Six-panel black and white gelatin silver print series, each showing a young Asian woman with hands raised near her open mouth, paired with typeset text panels forming a first-person narrative

Linda Nishio, Kikoemasu ka? (Can you hear me?), 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Linda Nishio
United States, active California, Los Angeles, born 1952
Title
Kikoemasu ka? (Can you hear me?)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1980
Medium
Six gelatin-silver prints, with six accompanying text panels; glass sheet
Dimensions
a,c,e,g,i,k) Image and sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (26.04 x 33.66 x 2.86 cm) each; b,d,f,h,j,l) Text panels: 13 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (33.66 x 8.26 cm) each; Glass sheet and overall: 58 x 38 in. (147.32 x 96.52 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.2001.92a-l
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.

Copyright
© Linda Nishio