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Various Artists
House Without Walls1989-1991

Not on view
Color photograph looking steeply down into a deteriorating basement room with rusted pipes, a live chicken, a white egg on the dusty floor, and a eucalyptus branch overhead
Gelatin silver print of a wooden plank wall with a handwritten child's note and a small crucifix. The note, printed on white paper, features a crayon figure drawing above the handwritten text: "Dear dad Sorry for being bad please for give me." A decorative metal crucifix hangs to the right.
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Color photograph of a worn deck of playing cards against a dark background, with an ace of spades and a nine of diamonds face-up on top, shot in shallow focus with warm, aged tones.
Color photograph of a large weathered wooden hull fragment illuminated in vivid blue against a dark background, with several wooden support timbers visible beneath the curved structure, shot from above at an angle.
Gelatin silver print, waist-deep portrait of a young girl standing in open water, hands clasped together at chin height, wearing a wet short-sleeved dress and multiple bangles, hair in two braids, hazy horizon behind her.
Color photograph of a flat, still body of water at dusk, with a low horizon line and pale peach and blue sky reflected across the glassy surface; small buoys visible in the middle distance, sandy shoreline at lower left.
Gelatin silver print of a man in a harlequin diamond-patterned costume with ruffled collar, leaning against a wall and holding a large cardboard star, with a dark doorway and stair newel post at left.
Close-up color photograph of a female breast in warm reddish-brown tones, with shallow depth of field and soft focus at the edges.
Gelatin silver print, torso and raised arms of a nude figure outdoors, dappled leaf shadows cast across the skin, with foliage visible in the background.
Artist or Maker
Various Artists
Title
House Without Walls
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1989-1991
Medium
Gelatin-silver print, dye coupler print, dye destruction print
Dimensions
Image (each): 9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (23.02 × 34.13 cm) Primary support (each): 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (28.1 × 35.4 cm) Mat (each): 16 1/16 × 20 in. (40.8 × 50.8 cm) Overall: 17 7/16 × 21 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (44.29 × 54.61 × 5.72 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lewis Baltz
Accession Number
AC1994.161.1-.10
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography