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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P2003.8.7
People
Laurie Simmons, American (Far Rockaway, New York born 1949)
Title
Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera), variation (in honor of Jimmy de Sana)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: 1989: A Portfolio Honoring Artists Lost to AIDS
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1987, variation printed 2000
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98133

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Crystal archive-type chromogenic print
Technique
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 25.4 x 15.1 cm (10 x 5 15/16 in.)
sheet: 60.8 x 50.8 cm (23 15/16 x 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, b.r. in blue ink: Laurie Simmons
  • inscription: recto, LLC, blue ink: #46/75 [over] 1987/2000
  • inscription: verso, lower center, blue ink, in artist's hand: for Jimmy DeSana
  • inscription: verso, LRC, blue ink, signed, in artist's hand: Laurie Simmons

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Laurie Simmons
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
P2003.8.7
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Simmons, "Jimmy the Camera: Art and Memory in the AIDS Crisis", The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal (Cambridge, MA, 2012), Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring, p. 36

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