My Left Hand

Artist Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947 - 2017)

Date1991

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 × 8 11/16 inches (30.48 × 22.07 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 inches (35.23 × 27.76 cm)

Credit LineAnonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi and Mr. and Mrs. George McKenna

Object number2018.31.5

SignedStamped on sheet verso, lower right, in black ink: "Photo: Kenji Nakahashi"

Inscribednone

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DescriptionVertically oriented image of a left hand - appears to be a double exposure with thumb extending out in one captured image. The hand is placed palm up with the fingers nestled between strips of wood; intersecting rulers measure the length and width.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Born in Japan, Kenji Nakahashi lived as a freelance photographer in New York City, making work that might be characterized as light-hearted conceptualism—a combination of humor and a precise, quasi-scientific methodology. Fascinated by the nature and proportions of the body, Nakahashi found artistic inspiration in the most immediate and personal observations.

Provenance

Gift of anonymous donor to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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