2012.55.3, Sarah Charlesworth, Untitled (Skull) from the 0+1 series, 1999.

Sarah Charlesworth was an important member of the Pictures Generation, a group of photographers in the 1970s and 80s concerned with the circulation of the image and its role in shaping the society we know. Using found images cut from their original sources, Charlesworth's removal of the original context interrogated the meaning of the image and how it can be used for different means in our modern culture. Untitled (Skull) is from a later series in which she photographed isolated objects instead of using pre-existing images. The objects varied from Buddha figurines to orchid flowers; all were primarily white and shown against a white background. In isolating each motif, Charlesworth offered a meditation on the symbolic significance of the images when lacking their typical surroundings. 

Chelsea Pierce, Soft Focus, Label copy [2012.55.3], 2018.

n.d. Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY 

Until 2012: The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX, purchased from above

From 2012: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above [1]

[1] the main source for this provenance is in the Documentation section of Collections Records Object File 2012.55.3

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