#L18-V2
Photograph
#L18-V2
From Cko
Untitled
1967
Chromogenic development print
Overall: 26.4 x 33.9 cm (10 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Gift of the artist
1972.0141.0008
Inscriptions mount verso (pencil): #1
TextFor her 1967 master’s thesis at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunié Sugiura made a series of unusual photograms. Not only were the prints in color, but they featured both abstract forms achieved through darkroom machinations and representational images derived from portions of projected negatives. Her innovative method combined two approaches that were often understood to be polar opposites at the time—photography as descriptive documentation and photography as a platform for material experimentation. Sugiura’s subsequent work continued to confound this distinction, foreshadowing the current state of the field, which recognizes that these two ways of producing photographs are not mutually exclusive.
