Walking Camera I (Jimmy the Camera), 1987

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series Title

Walking Objects

Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.4441

Artists / Makers

Laurie Simmons (artist) American, born 1949

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Inscription

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?]

Provenance

(Metro Pictures, New York); purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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.