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Krannert Art Museum: Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics: Portrait, Word, and Image

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Tension of Word and Image in Practice

The Best Friend

Hal Fischer, The Best Friend, from Boy-Friends, 1979; printed 2016. Pigment inkjet on porous, resin-coated paper. Museum purchase through the Robert and Sonia Carringer Art Acquisitions Fund. 2019-2-3. 1-2.

Room 46

Sophie Calle, Room 46, from L'Hotel, 1983. Nine gelatin silver prints and chromogenic print with text, diptych, 41 1/4 x 57 inches, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 

The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems

Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, 1974-1975. Gelatin silver prints on board, each diptych panel 10 in. x 22 in. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.