The Promise of Photography: Selections from the DG Bank Collection
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
September 12, 1999 October 24, 1999
Sechs Fotos. 2.5.89–7.5.89 (c / 4.5.1989)
Six Photos. May 2–7, 1989 (c / 4 May 1989)
1991
35 cm x 50.8 cm
Portfolio with six black-and-white photographs on resin-coated paper
Editions CR: 74c
Richter used a delayed-action shutter release to take this photograph.
50 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered at top left or top right.
2 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered in Roman numerals at top left, marked a.p. on the first sheet of the portfolio.
There are also six individual copies of these photographs overpainted with oil paint, signed and dated in chronological order in ink at top right: 15. Jan. 1990 to 20. Jan. 1990.
This artwork is shown in the following exhibition videos:
This artwork is mentioned in the following talks:
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Gerhard Richter. Maler Elger, Dietmar 2002
Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the [more]
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