Motorcycle
Marilyn Nance
American, born 1953
January 1977
A gelatin silver print photograph by Marilyn Nance that quietly frames a lone motorcycle parked before piles of rubble, half-built low-rise structures, and swaying palm trees to register a moment of street-level change.
The image arrests you with its stillness — a single bike centered in the foreground against a flat, open street, skeletal construction and scattered debris under a pale sky punctuated by tall, spare palms, producing a mood both ordinary and slightly desolate.
As a small documentary snapshot from 1977, the work situates everyday mobility and urban transformation within a broader turn in photography that made visible the lived realities of changing cities and expanded recognition for women photographers recording social landscapes.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
3 1/8 × 4 3/4" (8 × 12 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Modern Women's Fund
Accession
435.2021
Palette
Exhibitions
