Gary Schneider
1993 (image) 1994 (sheet)
After Naomi

Gelatin silver print, toned
90.7 x 72.6 cm (image) 92.2 x 74.2 cm (sheet)
 
National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Gift of Zavie and Ida Miller, Nepean, Ontario, 2000, in honour of Dr. Brian Druker, No. 40946
 
(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.
 
Naomi was a close friend and neighbor of mine who had recently died of cancer.
 
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