About The Work
“In the mid-nineties, I created a series of works based on Life Magazine covers. I had been fascinated with Life Magazine since I moved to New York in 1982. I created a series of exercises around them, based on my interest in the politics of images. I felt Life Magazine was the perfect tool to reveal and present my ideas about the representation of politics and race in American media.
When it was announced that it would cease to publish in 1996, I decided to release these Life Magazine-based works.
Five found images in LIFE Magazine, December 5, 1969, is exactly what the title of the work announces. In that particular issue of the magazine, I had found extraordinary, haunting photographs of the My Lai massacre. In analyzing the contents of the magazine, I discovered four other photographs that I felt resonated in particularly powerful ways with that photograph. And that work was born.”
Courtesy Alfredo Jaar
About Alfredo Jaar
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: I Want to Believe: The Met Breuer Uncovers the Deep Links Between Art and Conspiracy
- Interviews & Features: Heading Into 2017, Here Are 6 Fundamental Questions the Art World Should Be Asking Itself
- Art 101: Using the Body Against the Body Politic: Mona Hatoum on How Art Can Be a Form of Resistance
Portfolio of five prints including one photopolymer plate on surface gampi, one Epson pigment print on luster paper, two Epson pigment prints on surface gampi with screenprint gloss, and one photogravure on surface gampi
17.25 x 25.25 x 0.50 in
43.8 x 64.1 x 1.3 cm
This work is signed by the artist in pencil.
About The Work
“In the mid-nineties, I created a series of works based on Life Magazine covers. I had been fascinated with Life Magazine since I moved to New York in 1982. I created a series of exercises around them, based on my interest in the politics of images. I felt Life Magazine was the perfect tool to reveal and present my ideas about the representation of politics and race in American media.
When it was announced that it would cease to publish in 1996, I decided to release these Life Magazine-based works.
Five found images in LIFE Magazine, December 5, 1969, is exactly what the title of the work announces. In that particular issue of the magazine, I had found extraordinary, haunting photographs of the My Lai massacre. In analyzing the contents of the magazine, I discovered four other photographs that I felt resonated in particularly powerful ways with that photograph. And that work was born.”
Courtesy Alfredo Jaar
About Alfredo Jaar
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: I Want to Believe: The Met Breuer Uncovers the Deep Links Between Art and Conspiracy
- Interviews & Features: Heading Into 2017, Here Are 6 Fundamental Questions the Art World Should Be Asking Itself
- Art 101: Using the Body Against the Body Politic: Mona Hatoum on How Art Can Be a Form of Resistance
- This quoted dimensions are for the custom portfolio box.
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