Rebecca
2005
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 127 × 101.6 cm (50 × 40 in.) sheet: 146.05 × 120.65 cm (57 1/2 × 47 1/2 in.) framed: 149.86 × 124.46 × 6.35 cm (59 × 49 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.5065
Art Historical Context
Alec Soth's *Rebecca* (2005) invites viewers into the intimate world of contemporary American photography. Captured as a large-scale chromogenic print—measuring 127 × 101.6 cm (50 × 40 in.)—this work exemplifies Soth's signature style of portraiture, which blends documentary realism with subtle emotional depth. Chromogenic prints, produced from color negatives, are prized for their vivid hues and archival stability, allowing Soth's images to resonate with a luminous, almost painterly quality on a monumental scale. Soth, a Minnesota-based photographer, rose to prominence in the early 2000s wit...