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Collection Artwork
Artist
Ken Ohara (born Tokyo, Japan, 1942)
Title
#120 [from One]
Creation date
1970
Materials
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image size: 8 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.
paper size: 10 x 8 in.
Credit Line
The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum
Place of Creation
photographed in New York, New York, United States, North America
Accession Number
2017.41.80
Series
One
Object Type
Photographs
Marks
Signed, lower right
Inscribed and dated in pencil, verso, center: “ONE” - 1970 / #120 / [artist signature]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: 120

Object Label

For One, Ken Ohara photographed hundreds of people he met on the streets of New York City using the same closely cropped black-and-white format to interrogate individual and collective identities.

From the exhibition: Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy (July 9 – December 18, 2022)

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