A La Fourchette, New York City

Charles Harbutt

1974

  • Titles A La Fourchette, New York City (Proper)
  • Artist Charles Harbutt, American, born 1935
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) Frame: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (41.3 x 51.4 cm) Sight: 7 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (19.4 x 30.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of Rena Hill Selfe, AFI.15.1996
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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A multi-part wall mounted sculpture comprising the following three-dimensional elements: a black and white plastic cross bearing the words '16th St Baptist Church' that angles off the wall from a bracket at 45 degrees. The cross is hollow and open at its top end. Emerging from it is a large bouquet of mixed artificial flowers. At opposite sides of the bouquet's base there are two large bows, one yellow, one white. Hung to the left of the cross is a matted photograph in a gold frame. The photographic image is a video still of the cross and flowers described above. Directly below the photograph is a small rectangular wooden shelf bracketed to the wall at a 90 degree angle. The shelf is painted white, trimmed in a navy blue fringe, and topped by a fitted sheet of glass. Atop the shelf is a small white card, folded in half so it stands. The card front is printed with the text, "As Seen On TV."
Thick slabs of bacon sit atop a man’s head, presumably the artist. The man is shown in profile and the bacon is arrange in a line on his head, similar to how a mohawk would look. His hair is short otherwise and the photograph ends at the top of his ear, erasing any identifying facial features. The photo is set against a stark black background.
A closely cropped black and white photographic image of a sandbag structure. The title of the print is rendered in letterpress in an old-style seraph typeface and spaced at between ¾-1" below the image, and centered.
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