Untitled (Face in Dirt)
- Date
- 1991
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 19 in. × 19 3/4 in. (48.3 × 50.2 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 in. × 24 in. (50.5 × 61 cm)
framed: 25 3/4 × 26 3/8 in. (65.4 × 67 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P·P·O·W, New York
- Object Number
- 858:2020
NOTES
Is this man emerging from or sinking into the earth? The artist staged this self-portrait in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico just over a year before he died of AIDS. Fueled by bigotry, political leaders dismissed and downplayed the new virus, delaying research and medical care that led to thousands of preventable deaths. Reflecting on mortality in the age of AIDS, David Wojnarowicz wrote, “The first minute after being diagnosed you are forever separated from what you had come to view as your life or living …”
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