Liliana Porter Argentinian , b. 1941
Untitled (hand with paper), 1973
photo etching and collage on paper
plate 11 3/4 x 12 inches/29.8 x 30.5 cm
sheet 26 x 24 inches/66 x 61 cm
sheet 26 x 24 inches/66 x 61 cm
numbered '16/30'
Further images
“I perceived the photograph as the most objective kind of image possible, an instrument that allowed me to appropriate objects from reality (for example, a nail) and then print them...
“I perceived the photograph as the most objective kind of image possible, an instrument that allowed me to appropriate objects from reality (for example, a nail) and then print them on a wall; or I could put situations together, take a photograph of them, and insert the photograph into a print. It was a time in which photography was still quite separate from the other visual arts. And so I used it as a vehicle for displacing images into and between my pieces.”
—Liliana Porter, from "Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein," 2013 (New York: Fundación Cisneros), p. 66.
—Liliana Porter, from "Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein," 2013 (New York: Fundación Cisneros), p. 66.