Standard Pose #3 (Hand/Hair), 1982

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series Title

Lessons in Posing Subjects

Medium

8 internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid SX-70)

Dimensions

image (each): 8 × 7.7 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in.)

sheet (each): 10.8 × 8.8 cm (4 1/4 × 3 7/16 in.)
mount: 38.4 × 51.1 cm (15 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.81

Artists / Makers

Robert Heinecken (artist) American, 1931 - 2006

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Heinecken 1982; by artist, lower center in graphite: 2/10; center printed in black ink: This pose may seem superficially similar to / Standard Pose # 2, variants # 2 and # 3, but / differs dramatically in the angle of the active / arm and the degree of gentleness involved / between the hand and the hair. In the first / pair the hand delicately touches the hair at / the back of the neck and the arm is held more / closely in toward the body. In the next two, / the subjects' hands cradle or caress the hair / softly. A variant is illustrated in the third pair / where the pose is held at that point in time / when the fingers seem to be approaching the / hair in anticipation. Finally, in the last pair, / the hair is taken between the thumb and the / forefinger and gently rolled and sensed on a / tactile level.; lower left: Lessons in Posing Subjects: Standard Pose # 3 (Hand/Hair)

Provenance

Chris Pichler, Paso Robles, CA; Vincent Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary