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Maker(s):Sadé, Shuli
Culture:American, born in Israel (1952 - )
Title:Elevation, Timeline Series II, Hudson River
Date Made:1998-2003
Type:Photograph
Materials:asphaltum treated silver gelatin print, tar
Place Made:United States; Hudson River
Measurements:Sheet: 50 in x 70 in; 127 cm x 177.8 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2003.79
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Sadé begins her process in Timeline Series with large-scale photographs of the industrial United States. She covers these images with tar and asphaltum, a natural substance historically used as a glue or water-proof coating. After these materials rest for several days, Sadé uses a solvent to scrape layers of tar away from the image. The photographic documentation of a fading manufacturing and shipping economy now appears rusted, sepia, aged.

Sadé works at a scale that makes the landscape immediately present. We might imagine ourselves on the edge of a boat on the Hudson River—the Muhheakantuck, the water that flows both ways—listening to the movement of cargo and making out a range of smoke stacks through a smoky haze.
MH, 2018

Tags:
photographs; cities; bridges; water; rivers; factories

Subjects:
Women artists; photographs; Bridges; Cities and towns; Rivers; Water; Photographic gelatin

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