Man making expressive gestures while his large shadow appears across multiple black-and-white photobooth frames.

Photographs

Black and White Video (Shadow, Singing, Wall Contact, Crucifix)

1971

Medium
Eight gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
Overall: 30 11/16 × 19 3/8 in. (77.9 × 49.2 cm) Frame: 36 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (92.7 × 62.2 × 3.8 cm)
Accession number
2001.138.13
Acquired
2001
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone
Reproduction credit
© Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Edition
Vintage
Department
collection

About this work

Paul McCarthy, Black and White Video (Shadow, Singing, Wall Contact, Crucifix), 1971. Eight gelatin silver prints, overall: 30 11/16 × 19 3/8 in. (77.9 × 49.2 cm) Frame: 36 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (92.7 × 62.2 × 3.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone 2001.138.13. © Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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