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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/827-45.jpg
Title	Guarded Conditions.
Creator	Simpson, Lorna (American photographer and installation artist, born 1960)
Date	1989
Cultural Context	American North American African-American
Style/Period	Conceptual Contemporary Postmodern
Theme	Photographs Photographic prints Dye diffusion transfer prints Diffusion transfer prints Plaques (flat objects) Mixed media Ambiguity Perception Social issues Identity Ethnicity Discrimination Racial discrimination Race (concept) African American Gender issues Figurative art Figures (representations) Women Adults Back views Standing Costume (mode of fashion) Chemises (underwear) Dresses (garments) Hairstyles Inscriptions Captions Words Text (layout feature) Lettering (layout features) Letters (signs) Capital letters
Subject	Photographs Photographic prints Instant camera photographs Dye diffusion transfer prints Plaques Mixed media Social aspects Social values Ethnic stereotypes Stereotyping Discrimination Women Backs (Anatomy) Standing Clothing & dress Dresses Hairstyles Inscriptions Lettering (Layout features)
Description	"The viewer of Lorna Simpson's works is compelled to shuttle between texts and images in order to construct meanings. The use of text-image conjunctions was a major component of 1980s photographic process. In Britain Victor Burgin's teaching at the Polytechnic of Central London was particularly influential for a number of Simpson's contemporaries. These included Mitra Tabrizian, Karen Knorr, and Olivier Richon." (Caption, p.222); "[…] Lorna Simpson, an African-American artist who employed text-image juxtapositions in a Conceptualist idiom, produced a haunting series of back views of a generic black female in a shift, her identity occluded. Clearly social invisibility was being figured here, whilst Simpson's textual captions produced ambiguous supplementary meanings." (Excerpt, p.223)
Material	Eighteen Polaroid color prints with 21 plastic plaques, plastic letters Plastic (organic material) Photographs Instant camera photographs Mixed media
Measurements	231.1 x 332.7 cm
Technique	Photography Photographic processes Photographic techniques Diffusion transfer process Dye diffusion transfer process
Inscription	At the top, the text reads: GUARDED CONDITIONS; At the bottom beneath the images, the phrases SEX ATTACKS and SKIN ATTACKS repeatedly alternate on 3 rows.
Work Type	Photographs Photographic prints Mixed media
Repository	Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, California)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.222, fig.116)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum purchase. Contemporary Collectors Fund, 1990. (12.1-28)
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 827-45.jpg
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