Darko, expires May 1928

Artist Alison Rossiter (American, born 1953)

Date2011

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2011.21.61

SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Alison Rossiter"

InscribedOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "DARKO-expired May 1928 / processed in 2011"

MarkingsWhite label on housing folder, verso, upper left, in pencil: "1449".

Edition/State/Proofunique

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionImage of "landscape" abstraction; resemblesa pond with a dark shoreline.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Alison Rossiter made these two photographs without a camera, using expired photographic papers. She dipped the sheets into chemical baths and poured chemicals directly onto the surface. The resulting images recall the minimal landscape photographs of Edward Weston and Edward Steichen (2005.27.3180). Rossiter’s work celebrates photography’s history and the magic of darkroom experimentation.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2011;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.

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