Folk Art Collector, New York, N.Y.
Arthur Tress
American, born 1940
1974
A gelatin silver print that stages a folk‑art collector with a carved wooden hand set between her own hands, exploring the intimate boundary between person and object.
What hits you first is the sharply focused, upright wooden hand contrasted with the collector’s soft, worn hands and a softly blurred face behind them, creating a tactile, quietly uncanny encounter.
Made in 1974, the photograph links documentary and conceptual traditions by using a found object to probe memory, identity, and the emotional logic of collecting.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 1/2 × 7 1/2" (19 × 19 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Gregory V. Gooding
Accession
663.2022
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