Tontine

© Norinne Betjemann. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction o…
© Norinne Betjemann
Tontine
© Norinne Betjemann. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Tontine

Date1988-1989
Artist (American artist, born 1959)
MediumHand colored gelatin silver print
Dimensions36 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (92.7 x 130.8 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1989
Object number1989-67
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextBetjemann manipulates her photographic prints in several ways: by altering the negative, hand-developing and hand-coloring. The artist is interested in the passage of time, and her manipulations lend an aged look to her prints, which appear to have been printed from old glass negatives, scratched, spotted and broken. This idea of passing time is also apparent in her selection of old or deteriorating buildings as subjects, in this case, a gate at London's Highgate Cemetery.
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