Vertigo
This photogram—made without a camera by placing a collage of transparencies on a photosensitive sheet of paper and exposing it to light—is part of a series portraying psychoanalysts and their patients. Here, a patient on a Freudian couch is seen from above; the figure, sheathed in patterns of Maori origin, appears to come apart at the seams under the analyst’s scrutiny.
Artwork Details
- Title: Vertigo
- Artist: Shannon Bool (Canadian, born 1972)
- Date: 2015
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 7 13/16 × 11 13/16 in. (19.8 × 30 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Shannon Bool and Daniel Faria Gallery, 2015
- Object Number: 2015.498
- Rights and Reproduction: © Shannon Bool
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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