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LYLE ASHTON HARRIS (B. 1965)
Untitled (New York Times Pre-Election Self Portrait Commission), 2000
archival pigment print
signed in ink (on accompanying label)
image: 2278 in. x 1812 in. (58.1 x 46.9 cm.)
sheet: 2734 x 2212 in. (70.4 x 57.1 cm.)
This work is number twenty-three from an edition of twenty-five plus five artist's proofs.
Provenance
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York.
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Bronx-born photographer Lyle Ashton Harris, implements personal experience and a fascination with documentation to explore ideas of gender, sexuality, belonging, and various cultural narrative. The present lot, Untitled (New York Times Pre-Election Self Portrait Commission), 2000 touches on Harris’s interest in the historical objectification of the Black figure in Western culture at a time when mass incarceration was continuing to rise at an alarming rate. Harris’s work is intensely personal as evidenced in the Aperture text Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, a collection of images and portraits alongside journal entries and recollections from the 1980s and 1990s, a time of emerging multiculturalism, shifts in the art world and nascent globalization. Another print of this image resides in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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