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Maker(s):Hunter, Debora
Culture:American (1950-)
Title:Self-Portrait in Hot Water
Date Made:1976
Type:Photograph
Materials:Chromogenic print
Measurements:Mat: 20 x 16 in; 50.8 x 40.6 cm; Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 15/16 in; 35.2 x 27.8 cm; Image: 9 15/16 x 9 15/16 in; 25.2 x 25.2 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE: recto, lwr. r. (purple ink): Debora Hunter; TITLE/DATE: recto, lwr. l. (purple ink): Self-portrait in hot water, 1976
Accession Number:  UM 1981.12
Credit Line:Purchase with funds from the UMass Alumni Association and the National Endowment for the Arts
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Label Text:
Artist's statement:
"This photograph was made in 1976 while I was finishing my MFA at Rhode Island School of Design, while studying there with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Lisette Model and Minor White. While I found the program, its instructors, and fellow students supportive and inspiring, I couldn’t help but want to “push the envelope” by working within the emergent field of color photography and by challenging traditional representation of women by male photographers. Self-Portrait in Hot Water, complete with unshaved armpit and confrontational self-assured gaze, is a literal and metaphor comment upon women’s new role.”

Tags:
portraits; women; nudes; shadows; water; baths

Subjects:
nudes (representations); Portraits; Shades and shadows; Water; Women

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