Anabiosis: Fishermen Plants
Photograph
2000 (photographed)
2000 (photographed)
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Olga Cherysheva's (Russian, b. 1962) series of mutely toned photographs entitled Anabiosis: Fishermen Plants (2000), singles out of the snow-covered ice, solitary Russian fishermen wrapped in fabrics to protect themselves against the freezing cold. They are recognisable as human figures from her citation in the title and, as the title also suggests, are returned to life through the photographs, transformed into shoots of plants breaking through the deathly ice. Chernysheva has created series of street photographs in the late 1990s and early 2000s that single out observations that become increasingly surreal motifs as the series numbers increase.
Object details
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Title | Anabiosis: Fishermen Plants (series title) |
Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
Brief description | Photograph, from 'Anabiosis: Fishermen Plants' series, by Olga Cherysheva, 2000 |
Physical description | Black and white photograph of a plant wrapped in hessian near Red Square, Moscow. |
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Marks and inscriptions | (Signed and dated by artist on verso.) |
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Credit line | Given by the artist 2004 |
Summary | Olga Cherysheva's (Russian, b. 1962) series of mutely toned photographs entitled Anabiosis: Fishermen Plants (2000), singles out of the snow-covered ice, solitary Russian fishermen wrapped in fabrics to protect themselves against the freezing cold. They are recognisable as human figures from her citation in the title and, as the title also suggests, are returned to life through the photographs, transformed into shoots of plants breaking through the deathly ice. Chernysheva has created series of street photographs in the late 1990s and early 2000s that single out observations that become increasingly surreal motifs as the series numbers increase. |
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Accession number | E.3556-2004 |
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Record created | July 19, 2004 |
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