Caballero águila (Eagle Knight)
Artist
Flor Garduño
(Mexican, born 1957)
CultureMexican
Date1986
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 12 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (31.4 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
SignedOn verso: signature, title, printing credit, and dates in pencil
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2017.5.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a photograph of a man standing in profile against a wall with markings and wearing a costume.Label TextFlor Garduño Mexican, b. 1957 Caballero águila (Eagle Knight), 1986 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1993 Flor Garduño’s photographs concentrate on the contemporary presence of indigenous cultures in Mexico and Central America. Trained in the documentary tradition, she is committed to portraying the contemporary moment, but her use of gentle lighting and soft tones also gives her subjects a historical quality, as if her images are set in the past. As seen here, the resulting photographs appear both historically rich and freshly modern, suggesting there is little distinction between the ancestral past and today. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2017.5.2 ProvenanceSwann Auction Galleries, New York; purchased by Chrysler Museum of Art, February 2017.Exhibition History"Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.
18th century
