Light in Purse #4
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Christina Price Washington, American, born 1965
Date
2009
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with the Lucinda Weil Bunnen Fund for the Bunnen Collection
Accession #
2014.387
Description
In Christina Price Washington’s series Light in Purse, a piece of photographic paper becomes a visual logbook of her movements and a day’s activities. By placing the light-sensitive paper inside the bag, each instance of her opening her bag is automatically recorded as outside light filters in and strikes the paper, which results in the monochromatic forms once the print is developed in the darkroom. The paper in the bag also naturally becomes bent and folded as the day goes on, adding a weathered texture that complements the abstract forms of the exposed surface.