Spine, Lisa Oppenheim

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  • Spine, Lisa Oppenheim
  • Spine, Lisa Oppenheim
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This catalog was produced following Lisa Oppenheim: Spine, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Bringing together three bodies of work, the exhibition took poetic inspiration from the notion of the spine and its relationship to the natural world, the body, and labor. 

 

Central to the exhibition was a series of early 20th century photographs by Lewis Hine that Oppenheim repurposed. A documentary photographer and sociologist, Hine is well-known for his photographs that document the conditions of immigrant and child labor in American mills and factories. Appropriated from the Library of Congress’ photographic archive, the images depict adolescent textile workers—primarily young women with physically misshapen backs—that Hine photographed to illustrate the damaging effects of textile manufacturing on the spine. With her singular approach to re-processing photography, for the exhibition Oppenheim printed life-sized images and bisected each image at the vertical points of each figure’s spine, creating an intimacy between the subject and the photograph itself. 

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