23.3.16
Photograph
2016 (made)
2016 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Image of monochrome cut newspaper mounted onto white paper. Text is visible on the left hand side of the newspaper and the cut shapes resemble snowflakes.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | 23.3.16 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Photograph by Donna Ruff, '23.3.16, 2016' from the series, Migrant, 2011 -2016, hand cut pattern on deacidified newspaper |
| Physical description | Image of monochrome cut newspaper mounted onto white paper. Text is visible on the left hand side of the newspaper and the cut shapes resemble snowflakes. |
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| Gallery label | Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection (2021-2022)
Photography Centre, Gallery 101
Donna Ruff (born 1947)
23.3.16, 2016
From the series Migrant, 2011–16
Ruff used newspaper front pages as the basis for this series. She cut and reshaped the paper into patterns inspired by Moorish tiles and fretwork found in the Middle East, Spain and Africa. Here, she has intricately removed parts of a photograph from The Independentnewspaper which depicts the Brussels bomb attacks on 22 March 2016. Through her combination of design history, paper craft and photography, Ruff challenges the ways that photojournalism and the mainstream media have reported on global crises.
Hand-cut pattern on deacidified newspaper
Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group
Museum no. E.3511-2018 |
| Credit line | Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.3511-2018 |
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| Record created | August 1, 2018 |
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