William Wegman

unique large-format Polaroid Polacolor print, framed, an Innovation/Imagination exhibition label on the reverse, 1987 (cf. Fay, p. 46, from the same series)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, May - July 1999, and traveling to 11 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (The Friends of Photography, 2000), p. 89 (this print)

This Polacolor print is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, some fingerprints are visible, primarily in the lower right corner of the image. Also visible in raking light are a few minor surface scuffs and tiny disturbances to the glossy surface overall. The reverse of the print is hinged to a modern mat with two large pieces of linen tape.
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