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Carl Chiarenza
Menotomy 561980, printed 1988

Not on view
High-contrast black and white photograph of angular geometric planes and torn paper edges lit by narrow strips of raking light against a near-total black background
Artist or Maker
Carl Chiarenza
Title
Menotomy 56
Date Made
1980, printed 1988
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/8 × 17 3/8 in. (33.3 × 44.2 cm) Primary support: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (40.3 × 50.4 cm) Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.471
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
Copyright
© Carl Chiarenza