Harvard Art Museums > P2000.4.14: John in Sixteen Parts (Part #14, Bottom Row #7) Photographs Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"John in Sixteen Parts (Part #14, Bottom Row #7) (Gary Schneider) , P2000.4.14,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/178910. This object does not yet have a description. Gallery Text Gary Schneider creates luminescent photographs that demonstrate the enigmatic nature of identity by transforming and subverting the genre of portraiture. Building on his earlier involvement in performance art and filmmaking, Schneider began in the mid-1990s to create mural-size installations to inject cinematic scale into his portraits. John in Sixteen Parts is the collective afterimage of sixteen performances that Schneider enacted with his longtime partner John Erdman over several months. By using a large-format camera and navigating around his subject in the dark, Schneider selectively reveals aspects of Erdman’s visage with a directed light. The individual panels present an inventory of features as a litany of the senses. Yet the components of the face are disembodied, transformed, and multiplied, as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle gone awry. Rather than conveying verisimilitude, Schneider displays segments of Erdman’s physiognomy as traces of his psychology shifting over time. Identification and Creation Object Number P2000.4.14 People Gary Schneider, American (East London, South Africa born 1954) Title John in Sixteen Parts (Part #14, Bottom Row #7) Classification Photographs Work Type photograph Date 1996 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/178910 Physical Descriptions Technique Platinum print Dimensions sheet: 50.2 x 40.6 cm (19 3/4 x 16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: recto, lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: BOTTOM ROW #7 inscription: recto, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: JOHN IN SIXTEEN PARTS 1996 2/7 PART #14 inscription: recto, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: GARY SCHNEIDER Provenance Recorded Ownership History Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, from the artist, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs Copyright © Gary Schneider Accession Year 2000 Object Number P2000.4.14 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Exhibition History 32Q: 1120 Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/23/2015 Related Works P2000.4.1-16 Gary Schneider John in Sixteen Parts Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
