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Artist Alan Cohen (American, born 1943)

Date1983

DimensionsOverall: 14 x 15 in. (35.5 x 38.1 cm);
Image: 12 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (31.7 x 34.3 cm)

MediumGelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Doctors Josef & Ewa Blass

Object number

1985.114

Not on View

Label TextAlan Cohen is a master photographer and noted photography historian who lives and works in the Chicago area. He began the study of photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology after abandoning nuclear engineering. In the design department of IIT he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegel, and Garry Winogrand, among others. Cohen received an MS in Photography in 1972. Cohen is today an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a visiting member of the faculty at Columbia College, Chicago. These two photographs are related to a body of work that Cohen has named Constructions. “Constructions are the abstracted endpoints of mirrors, plexiglass and prosaic materials injected into the perspective views of quarries, construction sites and public places,” he explains. Of particular note are the strong shadows projected onto the hard concrete surfaces—silhouettes of the imposed hard-edged rulers and hand of the artist.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.