Deep breathing, from the series COSPlayers
- Title:
- Deep breathing, from the series COSPlayers
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
Asian Studies - Creator:
- Cao Fei
- Creation Date:
- 2004
- ID Number:
- 2006
- File Name:
- 2006.088.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- digital prints
chromogenic prints - Subject:
- Art and Photography
contemporary art
East Asia
cityscapes - Measurement:
- 81.3 x 106 (Sheet) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Two people dressed as anime characters square off to fight on a long flight of low stairs. The camera is looking across the stairs, and in the foreground is a woman in a deep lunge, in profile. She is wearing a ragged purple dress, black leggings and black boots, with white tape around her calves and torso and in each hand she has a dagger. Several steps up and further from the camera, a man, also in a deep lunge, dressed all in black with orange hair, faces her to fight. The stairs descend from right to left across the frame and their descent is echoed by a blue railing in the wall beyond them. The pair of fighters are watched by two model animals: a zebra at the top of the stairs, and a Holstein cow standing in a reflecting pool at the bottom. Several large buildings and a grey sky are visible beyond the stairs.
- Notes:
- Framed digital chromogenic print.
Taken in Guangzhou, China - Cite As:
- Cao Fei (Chinese, born 1978), Deep breathing (COSPlayers series), 2004. Digital chromogenic print, sheet: 81.3 x 106 cm. Acquired through the generosity of Peter Robbins, Class of 1974, and Jody Robbins, 2006.088.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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