My Left Hand

My Left Hand

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Kenji Nakahashi

My Left Hand depicts artist Kenji Nakahashi's own hand measured and proportioned by accompanying rulers and a wood frame. Playing with the idea of ‘the hand of the artist,’ a traditional indicator of skill and authorship, Nakahashi presents his hand as his primary means of self-expression, and thus, a conceptual self-portrait.
Artist
Kenji Nakahashi
(Japanese, active in the United States, 1947 - 2017)
Title
My Left Hand
Date
1991; printed 1992
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in. image
Credit
Anonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi
Accession No.
2020.5.18
Classification
Photographs
Geography
United States

Related

Estate of the artist (New York, NY); 2020, gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art

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