Object Details
- Gallery Label
- In this single-channel video, John Baldessari examines the chronological relationship between still images and motion pictures. The artist constructs a purposefully crude moving image from still pictures of himself walking toward the camera, then running past it. By creating a video with still images, Baldessari urges viewers to question notions of sequence and cinematic time, and how we depict the past, present, and future.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- John Baldessari, born National City, CA 1931-died Los Angeles, CA 2020
- Date
- 1971
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company
- Copyright
- © 1971 John Baldessari. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
- Medium
- single-channel video, black and white, sound; 12:45 minutes
- Type
- Media Arts
