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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
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Troy Brauntuch (American, b. 1954)
Golden Distance, 1976
Diptych of chromolin proofs; 16 7/16 x 12 7/16 in. (41.7 x 31.6 cm) each
Collection of Patrick J. O'Connell
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"Golden Distance is a pair of prints each reproducing a black and white picture of the head of a woman seen from behind. This image is inscribed in a circle, printed on black, reprinted on gold, and provided with a caption. But to what does this caption 'Whispers around a woman' refer? It seems only to reinforce the inaccessibility of the photograph itself…. It is the insistent reminder of the picture's withdrawal from signification…. The caption is only one of many expressions of a desire that treats the image with the mechanistic devotion appropriate to a fetish. The obsessive manipulations, alterations, applications of words are the materialization of a reverie. But because desire comes about only in the sphere of frustration, the image remains forever at a distance."
—Douglas Crimp, Pictures (1977)
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