Skirts
Clare Strand
British, born 1973
2011
A gelatin silver print in which Clare Strand stages a single round table swathed in a white pleated skirt like a theatrical prop, using a stark, controlled photograph to make an ordinary object quietly enigmatic.
A bright, circular white skirted table is perfectly centered against a deep, velvety curtain, the precise lighting and plunge of negative space turning a simple domestic object into something formal and slightly uncanny.
Working in conceptual, staged photography, Strand’s image questions the photograph’s authority by turning the everyday into a visual puzzle, opening conversations about mise-en-scène, evidence, and the uncanny in contemporary photographic practice.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 7/16 × 11 13/16" (24 × 30 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Donna Redel
Accession
1837.2015.c
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