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Hannah Wilke
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (guns)1974

Not on view
Black and white photograph, topless woman from the hips up wearing a wide-brimmed hat and round sunglasses, torso decorated with small floral stickers, holding a cigarette
Artist or Maker
Hannah Wilke
United States, New York, 1940–1993, active New York City
Title
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (guns)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1974
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 40 1/16 × 27 1/8 in. (101.76 × 68.9 cm) Primary support: 40 1/16 × 27 1/8 in. (101.76 × 68.9 cm) Secondary support: 40 1/16 × 27 1/8 in. (101.76 × 68.9 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Judith Rothschild Foundation, the Modern and Contemporary Art Council, and the Ralph M. Parsons Discretionary Fund
Accession Number
M.2005.56
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Schillo, Eve, and Claudine Dixon. Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture; Ante Usted: La Captura del Ser en el Retrato. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
Copyright
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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