Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish #06-16

2008-2011

Deborah Luster

Associated Names
Deborah Luster

Artist, American, born 1951

The image is displayed within a frame, featuring a page layout with an inscription on the left and a circular photograph on the right. The circular photograph shows a view from a slightly elevated position looking out from a porch with classical columns towards a street and neighboring houses. The horizon is not visible in the photograph. The photo has a monochromatic palette of black, white, and various grays, highlighting the structural details. The closest columns are detailed and take up part of the circle, guiding the eye towards the street scene with aged and slightly rundown houses. The image conveys architectural contrast through the detailed columns against the simpler buildings in the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (framed): 68.8 × 159.9 × 10.2 cm (27 1/16 × 62 15/16 × 4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.59.1

  • Series Title

    Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish

  • Copyright

    © Deborah Luster, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jack Shainman Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 35.

Wikidata ID

Q64146169

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