Image: Joe Ray Untitled 1970-2

Description: Photographs by Joe Ray, Untitled (detail) (thirty-one gelatin-silver prints; overall size, 52" x 52", 1970–2. Collection of LACMA). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Joe Ray's career from the 1970s: his documentary-like photographic series and performance-related projects (often documented in photographs and video), which explored artistic and cultural identity. This image illustrates his candid, documentary-like portraits, here of children, adults, shotgun houses and streets in his Louisiana hometown. The full work consists of 31 black-and-white, gelatin-silver prints, which conveyed his feeling about the neighborhood and its life, while charting the scope of his own trajectory over time and place. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in art journals and press publications, and acquired by a major museum.
Title: Joe Ray Untitled 1970-2
Credit: Artist Joe Ray. Copyright held by the artist.
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