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Maker(s):Michals, Duane
Culture:American (1932 - )
Title:Anna's Clothing
Date Made:1975
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print and black ink
Place Made:United States
Measurements:sheet: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
Narrative Inscription:  title above image at left with pen and black ink: ANNA'S CLOTHING; signed and editioned at lower right below image with pen and black ink: Duane Michals 5/25
Accession Number:  SC 2005.42.15
Credit Line:Gift of Drayton Grant, class of 1970, and Wayne I. Baden
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
close-up portrait of an older woman with dark and light hair lying in a coffin and wearing a high collar blouse with button and sheer over blouse

Label Text:
The text of this image is: ANNA'S CLOTHING I am looking at my grandmother in her casket. But this is not she! Her hair has become her hat, her stockings have become her legs, her shoes, her feet, her gown is her torso. I am looking at my grandmother's clothing. She has taken her body off as she would her clothing at bedtime. She still comforts me now the [letters scratched out] way she did when I was a child. She stands next to me. We are both there side by side looking at her old clothes in the casket. I am not sad.

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