Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Christopher Dawson’s photographs of his relatives and extended family appear to capture distinct moments, but they are in fact constructed from multiple exposures taken in sequence and assembled to form narrative panoramas of interlocking gestures and expressions. The earliest image in this series, Livingston, Montana (1995), was created by mounting three individual prints side by side. Recently, Dawson has begun to make digital scans of multiple negatives to create single, unbroken images. In the print, the same figure appears repeatedly throughout the scene, a clever hint about his process.
- Close to Home: Photographers and their Families, 2011
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Christopher Dawson, born New York City 1972
- Date
- 1998
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Billy and Jennifer Frist
- Copyright
- © Christopher Dawson
- Medium
- pigmented ink print
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 10 1/4 x 38 3/8 in. (26.0 x 97.4 cm)
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
