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Article: Lyle Ashton Harris: CRG Gallery.(New York)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Over the course of his career, Lyle Ashton Harris has moved among installation, video, and photography, often combining the three. His most recent show found him focusing on a single medium, however, and his favorite subject: himself. The twelve large-format Polaroid photographs on view (all works 2002) were all titled "Memoirs of Hadrian," after a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar that takes the form of a letter from Emperor Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius. In eight of the photographs, Harris poses as a pugilist, bruised and bloodied, wearing boxing gloves and a white jockstrap. (Signifiers of imperial Rome are nowhere in sight.) In the rest he appears as a shadowy figure, ...
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Article: Books received.
Afterimage;
September 1, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... The black and white work of one of the best modernist photographers of modernist architecture.] Lyle Ashton Harris, photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris, essay by Anna Deavere Smith. Gregory R. Miller & Co./56pp./$19.95 (sb). Male ...
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