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- Location
- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
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- Description
- Provenance
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SC0006-AST-MM-1
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Newnham - Building B - Level 2 - Near the North Exit
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Crowd
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2004
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Mixed Media
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Linocut Print on Mylar in Nine Panels
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152.4 x 152.4 cm
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5/10
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“In the structure of contemporary media consumption, each image of photojournalism is framed as a complete narrative, a discrete decisive moment. With a small part of something larger, Andrews seeks to open a space before the beginning and after the end, where a perspective unfolds for the viewer at the periphery of the image. In doing so he also suggests the presence of a malleable narrative that remains unfinished.” (Jacob Korcyznski)
If we were to enlarge a newspaper photograph, the initial certainty of the image would soon dissolve into a blurry dot matrix. The realization that all media filters its content makes clear the distance from which we consequently view the world and our ensuing separation from it. Stephen Andrews shows us both the message and the means by which it is delivered. By bringing the viewer’s gaze back to the surface of the work, he reveals the ambiguities of meaning which, until now, have remained unrealized. In Crowd, our confusion about world events then made “clear” by the mass media, reverts, with further amplification, to confusion. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased at auction from Waddington's Auction House on March 8, 2012. Purchase partially made possible through the generosity of Waddington's.
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Signed on the back, Stephen Andrews
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