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AdmittedSanlé Sory · 1970-85
Here we have Untitled — a photograph by Sory, nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty-five. It's gelatin silver print, about 10 by 8 centimeters. It is among the smallest things here — you could close a hand around it. In the picture, look for the musical instrument.
Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions Image: 4 1/8 × 3 1/16" (10.5 × 7.8 cm) Frame: 10 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 1 1/4" (27.3 × 27.3 × 3.2 cm) · Credit Committee on Photography Fund
Hanging beside it in The Paul J. Sachs Galleries: Prends garde! (Look out!), Untitled from the series African Spirits
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled
More by Sanlé Sory here: L’Homme à la guitare (The Man with a Guitar), L’Américain (The American), L’Intellectuel (The Intellectual), Le Voyageur (The Traveler), Le Pistolero (The Gunman), Prends garde! (Look out!)
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.