Her appropriations were not to be perceived as some mousy homage. Nor was she putting herself through a cult-kook exercise in self-abnegation. By literally taking the pictures she did, and then showing them as hers, she wanted it to be understood that she was flatly questioning- no flatly undermining- those most hallowed principles of art in the modern era: originality, intention, expression.
-Gerald Marzorati in Art in the (Re)Making, ARTnews, May 1986.
These were reshot from Walker Evans' WPA photographs of the Burroughs family in Hale County, Alabama during the depression.
First shown at a solo show at Metro Pictures (New York) in 1981
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