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Series TitlePhotobooth works
Artist
Jared Bark
(American, born 1944)
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage and sheet (overall): 15 3/4 × 23 3/4 inches (40.01 × 60.33 cm)
Mount: 17 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches (44.45 × 64.77 cm)
Framed: 18 1/8 × 26 1/8 × 1 1/4 inches (46.05 × 66.37 × 3.18 cm)
Mount: 17 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches (44.45 × 64.77 cm)
Framed: 18 1/8 × 26 1/8 × 1 1/4 inches (46.05 × 66.37 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.20.3
SignedSigned and dated on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Bark 1976"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn frame backing board, upper left, in black pen: "PB 1052".
Edition/State/Proofed. unique
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DescriptionComposite image composed of thirty narrow strips placed next to one another in two even rows. The images are black with cropped parts of a hand and/or arm. They are assembled in such a way that they appear to begin in the upper right corner and wind their way down and around to the lower left corner in a loose S-shape; most of the arm images are concentrated in the upper right quadrant.Gallery LabelJared Bark began making works of art like this using photobooths in 1969, first with public machines and later with one installed in his apartment. Invented in 1888 and popularized in the 1930s, photobooths are vending machines for portrait photography. The user sits in the booth, and the machine takes pictures and then automatically prints them onto a vertical strip. Bark welcomed the booth’s limitations: the 4 x 1 inch printing format, fixed lighting, lack of color, and rudimentary print quality. He arranged the photo strips to create unexpected compositions like this abstraction made from his own body movements.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Jared Bark
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