Zucchini squash encountering sawhorse [var. "Dread"]

Series TitleSixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion

Artist Hollis Frampton (American, 1936 - 1984)

Artist Marion Faller (American, 1941 - 2014)

Date1975

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 12 7/16 inches (18.11 × 31.55 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 inches (27.61 × 35.38 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.20

SignedSignatures on sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "Marion Faller / Hollis Frampton"

InscribedOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "↑ top / 33.Zucchini squash encountering sawhorse / (var."Dread" / from: / "Sixteen Studies from / Vegetable Locomotion [underlined]" / 1975. / by / Marion Faller + / Hollis Frampton"

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DescriptionSeries of images in a Muybridge-like grid, three rows of four images each, showing a person (partially out of frame) holding a large zucchini and proceeding to break it in half by hitting it against a sawhorse.Gallery Label

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Cabbages fly and engorged zucchini squash “encounter” the top of a sawhorse in the series Vegetable Locomotion. Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller take a slapstick approach to the history of photography and cinema with their choice of unlikely subjects for motion study. The series is a delightfully silly homage to photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 Animal Locomotion that presented horses, humans, and all manner of moving creatures. The grid background used in these photographs is also inspired by the one that appears in many of Muybridge’s images.

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