Details

Title

Nude Collage #1

Artist/Maker

Paula Chamlee (American, born 1944)

Date

1998

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

7 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches

Credit

Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection

Accession #

2012.603

Location

Currently not on view

Paula Chamlee’s work stretches beyond the realm of straight photography and into assemblage, painting, and drawing. This collage was inspired by photocopies of prints that her husband, the late photographer Michael A. Smith, intended to share with a prospective collector. Because the photographs’ dimensions did not match with that of the copy machine, the images required cropping and taping. Intrigued by the nature of these cast-off bits piled together and the relationship of the parts to the whole, Chamlee created this collage by piecing together images of her body that Smith had taken.

Image Copyright

© (c) Paula Chamlee