Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970

Mel Bochner

Artist, American, 1940 - 2025

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    10 offset lithographs on notecards and envelope

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    sheet (each): 12.7 × 20.32 cm (5 × 8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.55

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Printed Matter, New York; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025

Inscriptions

signed by artist, center of envelope printed in black ink: MISUNDERSTANDINGS / (A THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY) / MEL BOCHNER; center right of envelope printed in black ink perpendicular: © Multiples, Inc., N.Y. 1970

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