| Gary Schneider Ann 1999 Gelatin silver print, toned 91.5 x 73.6 cm (image) 91.5 x 74.9 cm (sheet) National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Gift of the Council for Canadian-American Relations, 2003, through the generosity of John Erdman, No. 41125 LL/63788 (Pers. comm. Gary Schneider to Dia Pellegrino, 14 March 2018 - used with permission)
"I began to make my own handprints in 1993, These are self-portraits and simultaneously memorial portraits. I made two imprints of my left hand onto film emulsions. These handprints are photographs made without a camera and are enlargements of the preservation of sweat and heat in the film emulsion. I interpreted these two imprints in the darkroom in an exaggerated fashion, as unique variant prints, to remind me of people I had lost, that I so regretted I had not photographed, to become memorial portraits, a glove for that person to inhabit."
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