Walking Camera I (Jimmy the Camera)
1987
Artist, American, born 1949
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 211.46 × 120.02 cm (83 1/4 × 47 1/4 in.)
framed: 226.06 × 134.62 × 2.22 cm (89 × 53 × 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4441
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Metro Pictures, New York); purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2001
Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, January 14 – April 1, 2001; Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL, April 22 – July 8, 2001
2003
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 25 – December 8, 2003
Bibliography
2000
Weller, Dennis P. and Janis Goodman. Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography. Exh. cat. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 2000: 53, cat. 19.
Inscriptions
on verso of frame, upper left, typed in purple ink across top of white label: North Carolina Museum of Art RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA / [line] / On temporary loan to: / EXHIBITION/DATES / ARTIST / TITLE / NUMBER; annotations typed in black ink: North Carolina Museum of Art / "Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The / Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography" / January 14 - April 1, 2001 / Laurie Simmons / Walking Camera I (Jimmy the Camera), / 1987 / cat. 19 [1.2001.19]; center left on second white label, typed in black ink: METRO PICTURES / 150 GREENE STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10012 / 212 ● 925 ● 8335; center left of label: Laurie Simmons / WALKING CAMERA II [sic], 1987 / black and white photograph / 83-1/4 x 45-1/2" / edition: 2/5 / (MP# 204); by unknown hand, vertical along lower center right edge in graphite: Smimmons [sic] / 48 x 84 / RED 131[2?]
Wikidata ID
Q64156280