Untitled
2009-2011
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View on museum website →Medium
inkjet print
Dimensions
image: 32.4 × 21.6 cm (12 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.) sheet: 48.3 × 33 cm (19 × 13 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Timothy and Suzanne Hyde
Accession Number
2017.164.2.16
Art Historical Context
John Gossage’s untitled inkjet print, created between 2009 and 2011, offers a quiet meditation on the possibilities of contemporary photography. The modest image size of 32.4 by 21.6 centimeters, presented on a larger sheet, encourages close looking while giving the work a deliberate, almost sculptural presence on the wall. As a photograph acquired by the National Gallery of Art, it joins a collection that traces how artists continue to explore the medium’s capacity to record, interpret, and reimagine the world around us. Inkjet printing, the technique employed here, marks a significant evolu...
About the Artist
John Gossage
John Gossage was born in Staten Island, New York City in 1946, and his path into photography was unconventional: he left school at sixteen to pursue private instruction from three giants of mid-twentieth-century photography — Lisette Model, Alexey Brodovitch, and Bruce Davidson. This early, intensive mentorship shaped a deeply personal and intellectually rigorous practice. Gossage later relocated ...