Frozen Flight
Date1990
Artist
Bruce Katsiff
(American photographer and arts administrator, born 1945)
MediumPlatinum palladium print
Dimensionsimage: 12 × 20 in. (30.5 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 23 × 28 in. (58.4 × 71.1 cm)
support: 28 × 36 in. (71.1 × 91.4 cm)
sheet: 23 × 28 in. (58.4 × 71.1 cm)
support: 28 × 36 in. (71.1 × 91.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Timothy Katsiff, 2015
Object number2015-61
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextWhen a friend discovered a cache of grackles that had perished in his woodstove, he called Katsiff, who put them to work in this photograph. The birds inhabit a custom box, which they share with a sheaf of crumbling, partially burned newspaper; a vintage advertisement; and other dead animals. The tattered remains of a pigeon are topped with a cat’s skull, introducing an element of the grotesque into the composition.
