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Vito Acconci American
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In this work, Acconci produced two photographs from the upper (hands over head) and lower (touching toes) extensions of his body; the results are less depictions of a scene than indices of a movement prescribed by the limits of the body in two directions.
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Title: Toe-Touch
Artist:
Vito Acconci (American, Bronx, New York 1940–2017 New York)
Date: 1969
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 22.2 x 12.7 cm (8 3/4 x 5 in.) each
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2000
Accession Number: 2000.303.2
Rights and Reproduction: © Vito Acconci
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