Upside-down Girl

Artist Mark Cohen (American, born 1943)

Date1974; printed 2014

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 13/16 × 17 11/16 inches (30.02 × 44.93 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.64 × 50.47 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mark Cohen

Object number2014.43.2

SignedSigned on sheet verso, bottom center, in pencil.

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom center, in pencil: "P2014 / MAY 9 / UPSIDEDOWN GIRL 1974"

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DescriptionImage of girl upside-down with hair dangling.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.

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Mark Cohen’s photographs are entirely his own: dynamic, bold, and strange. Influenced by the history of street photography—the pictures of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and others—Cohen works in a distinctly personal way. Typically, he holds his camera at arm’s length, making exposures quickly and intuitively without looking through the viewfinder. The result is a working method in sync with the fluid vitality of the street itself. Cohen first came to national attention in 1969, and worked for many years in his home town of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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