In the video below, the second in our Curator Close-Up series, Assistant Curator of Photography Gregory Harris discusses acquiring two photographs for the High’s collection and the path the works took on their way to the gallery walls.
This fall, Harris acquired two photographs from artist Amy Elkins’s project Black is the Day, Black is the Night. This portfolio explores the psychological effects of solitary confinement through abstracted photographs Elkins made based on her correspondence with incarcerated men around the United States.
Recently Acquired Works
Amy Elkins
American, born 1979
13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009–2016
Pigmented inkjet print
Gift of the artist
Amy Elkins
American, born 1979
Four Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Forest), 2009–2016
Pigmented inkjet print
Purchase with funds from The Thalia and Michael C. Carlos Advised Fund, Joe B. Massey, Lindsay W. Marshall and Dr. Lucius C. Beebe, Sr., Avery Kastin, Jane Cofer, and William Boling