In order to be fashionably thin she would crash diet though she was warned it would be curtains for her stomach

In order to be fashionably thin she would crash diet though she was warned it would be curtains for her stomach

Photograph

Marcia Resnick

Maker
American, 1950–2025

In order to be fashionably thin she would crash diet though she was warned it would be curtains for her stomach

From Re-visions


1978
Gelatin silver print inscribed with graphite
Image: 8 7/16 × 12 3/16 in. (21.5 × 31 cm)
Paper: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (40.4 × 50.4 cm)
Matted: 18 × 22 × 1/8 in. (45.7 × 55.9 × 0.3 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2020
2020.0045.0002
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on print beneath image: FROM RE-VISIONS MARCIA RESNICK \ In order to be fashionably thin she would crash diet though she was warned it would be curtains for her stomach.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TRC: 2
Inscribed in pencil on verso, B: part 1- [erased] it was curtains for my stomach FROM RE-VISIONS \ Marcia Resnick 1978 \ #RV38.01

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