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Maker(s):Farber, Dennis
Culture:American (1946-2017)
Title:Untitled
Date Made:1990
Type:Photograph
Materials:color polaroid with black and white montage
Measurements:sheet: 24 x 20 in.; 60.96 x 50.8 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2000.412
Credit Line:Gift of Steven M. Jacobson (Class of 1953)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Description:
Polaroid of calendar girl with montage of boy eating an apple.

Label Text:
For his large-scale Polaroids, Farber often recycled images of children, which he adapted from photographs published in children’s books of the 1930s. Here he positioned a reproduction of a boy eating an apple, symbolic of original sin, next to a photograph of a pin-up girl. The use of photomontage and its resulting erotic connotation distorts the assumption of childhood innocence. Likewise, it challenges the truthfulness of photography as a medium.

GM, 2019

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