Untitled
In this 100-image work, Bark creates a "narrative" in which he changes into all the shirts in his wardrobe one by one; at regular intervals, the shutter is released during a blur of quick change. Like Charles Ray in his 1973 photo-piece, "All My Clothes," Bark uses his own body as subject and object. But whereas Ray's piece is programmatic and deadpan, Bark's piece is more Romantic and fevered--a continual molting and shedding of selves under the regularly blinking eye of the camera.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Jared Bark (American, born 1944)
- Person in Photograph: Person in photograph Jared Bark (American, born 1944)
- Date: 1975
- Medium: Gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions: Overall: 7 15/16 × 39 5/8 in. (20.2 × 100.6 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.333
- Rights and Reproduction: © Jared Bark
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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