Christmas Solar Eclipse in My Father's Hands, Sanibel

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Christmas Solar Eclipse in My Father's Hands, Sanibel

2000, printed 2023

Barbara Bosworth

(American, b. 1953)

Culture

America

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Measurements

Sheet: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.); Frame: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds donated by Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2024.134

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

The final eclipse of the second millennium CE—a partial solar eclipse—took place on Christmas Day 2000.

Description

Barbara Bosworth was visiting her parents in Sanibel, Florida during that eclipse. To make this photograph, the artist punched pinholes in a large cardboard sheet and held it between the sun and her father. During the eclipse, the pinholes projected images of the sun onto his hands, with part of its circle covered by the moon.