Untitled (Post-Photography) [P85]
Photograph
Untitled (Post-Photography) [P85]
2014
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Frame: 19 1/8 × 16 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (48.5 × 41 × 4 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Photography Collection Committee and Sherry Phillips and Richard Margolis, 2015
2015.0050.0001
Inscriptions Signed in pencil on verso, BL: P85 \ [signature]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: April 12 mailed \ Williamsburg Mass \ Picked up April 19, 2014 \ Florence, Mass.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: April 12 mailed \ Williamsburg Mass \ Picked up April 19, 2014 \ Florence, Mass.
TextTo make each work in her series Post-Photography, Yola Monakhov Stockton inserted photographic paper into a cardboard box, sealed the box, punctured a tiny hole in the now-makeshift pinhole camera, and mailed it. When the box arrived at its destination, she developed the paper. The resulting photographs are records of each camera’s journey through sorting facilities, transport vehicles, and storage rooms. Their travels are collected as visual impressions in the photographs, which she demonstrates to be independent entities capable of accumulating memories, just as humans are.
