Photograph, Print, or DrawingThe human condition
Personal name
Main title
- The human condition [graphic].
Published/Created
- [1969, printed in 1975]
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- color film copy transparency of glassine sheet over page with photograph http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g14063 opens in a new window
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Description
- 1 item on two leaves : ink on glassine and gelatin silver developed-out paper print on rag-mat board; sheet 38 x 32 cm; image 9 x 13 cm.
Rights advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "Duane Michals" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/465_mich.html)
LC classification
- LOT 13030 [item]
Summary
- Image shows glassine sheet with handwritten text (left) and album page (right) on which is mounted a photograph of a man standing on the platform of a subway station, near a clock, probably in New York City.
Other Subjects
- Men--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970.
- Subway stations--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970.
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Notes
- Title from item.
- Caption continues from item: "I think we are all stars, but we don't know it. We are all each one a universe, but we don't know it. We walk heavy to the earth, and we are pulled down by the gravity of our ignorance. Why are we stuck here like this? I don't know."
- In album: Duane Michals #3 album, January 10, 1975, [leaf 5].
- Published in: Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography / Verna Posever Curtis. New York, NY : Aperture Foundation, 2011, p. 250.
Reproduction no./Source
- LC-USZC4-14063 DLC (color film copy transparency of glassine sheet over page with photograph)
LCCN
- 2015649123
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print opens in a new window
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing
Content type
- still image
Media type
- unmediated
Carrier type
- sheet
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Status
- Not Charged