Harvard Art Museums > P1996.24: Looking Back 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"Looking Back (Tom Young) , P1996.24,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/286375. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number P1996.24 People Tom Young, American (Boston, Massachusetts born 1951) Title Looking Back Other Titles Series/Book Title: Voices from Within Classification Photographs Work Type photograph Date 1995-1996 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/286375 Physical Descriptions Medium Gelatin silver print on metal Technique Gelatin silver print Dimensions actual: 63.5 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm (25 x 30 x 1 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: inscribed on image, lower left: Looking BAck/Voices From Within 1995/96; inscribed on image, lower right: Tom Young; text on transparency in acrylic block reads: It felt strange being back at the hospital. I stood in the yard by the old tree where I had spent time years ago. Back then, it was rare to be allowed outside. I often think back to my time spent within these walls, but its like some blurred dream that comes to me in disjointed pieces. I sometimes think about what it would be like if the illness returned and I had to go back to that inside world again. My life seems so normal now. I go about my day with only an occasional flash back. The day to day decisions of navigating through this life seem charged with the dark memory that my blood carries. So different than life in that room and the battle with the disease that took over the fiber of my being. The other patients seemed so scary at the beginning, and at the end of my stay seemed like family, brother-ers on the same voyage. I know some are still in the fiery part of their struggle and others are long buried. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Davis Pratt Fund Accession Year 1996 Object Number P1996.24 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. Publication History [Unidentified article], PRC Newsletter, Photographic Resource Center (Winter 1995) Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or 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
