Passage series
- Title:
- Passage series
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Neshat, Shirin
- Creation Date:
- 2001
- ID Number:
- 2001
- File Name:
- 2001.052.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- silver-dye bleach prints
- Subject:
- People and their places
Deserts
Muslim funerary rights - Measurement:
- 129.9 x 160 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Shows a burial ritual with Muslim women digging a grave in the desert as the funeral procession approaches, still distantly seen on the horizon. The women are all dressed in black facing in toward one another, no individual is visible and as a group they are very dark against the bright ocher rocky ground and the blue strip of sky at the frame's top edge.
- Notes:
- Framed silver dye bleach print.
One of two works by Neshat held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. - Cite As:
- Shirin Neshat (American, born Iran 1957), Passage series, 2001. Silver dye bleach print, 51 1/8 x 63 in. (129.9 x 160 cm). The Ames Family Collection of Contemporary Photography, 2001.052.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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