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Phie Nude Front

2011

Richard Learoyd

(British, b. 1966)
Culture
England
Medium
Unique camera obscura dye destruction print, flush-mounted
Measurements
Image: 121.9 x 210.8 cm (48 x 83 in.); Frame: 163.8 x 241 x 7.6 cm (64 1/2 x 94 7/8 x 3 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dominique Levy 2024.169
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This photograph, which is unique, was made with a room-sized camera.

Description

Richard Learoyd built a camera consisting of two rooms. The subject, along with a strong bank of lights, occupies one room. The photographic paper is exposed in an adjacent dark room (the camera obscura). A lens connects the two chambers. “The material in the camera [that is, the photographic paper] is the work itself,” says the artist. “It is a direct recording of the subject and is, in the truest sense, unique.”
A horizontally oriented dye destruction print depicts a thin nude woman with a light skin tone reclining on a white sheet. Her head rests to our left, face turned away, with dark hair pooling beneath her. She rests her hand against her chest and extends her legs toward our right, revealing three small tattooed stars on her thigh. The sheet and figure are elevated by a dark metal frame against a shadowed background.

Phie Nude Front

2011

Richard Learoyd

(British, b. 1966)
England

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