Index
William Wegman American
Not on view
In many of his early photographs, Wegman deconstructs specific aspects of the medium and its technology via visual puns, homonyms, and wordplay. Index is a five-part work comparing the symmetry of the artist’s own hands, in which he elongated each digit to the length of the pointer, or index, finger; he then printed alternating negatives in reverse to further confuse the two digits seen in each print. The results are a witty rejoinder to the hoary cliché that photographs are “indexical” records of their subjects.
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