In this single-channel video, John Baldessari examines the chronological relationship between still images and motion pictures. The artist constructs a purposefully crude moving image from still pictures of himself walking toward the camera, then running past it. By creating a video with still images, Baldessari urges viewers to question notions of sequence and cinematic time, and how we depict the past, present, and future.
- Title
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Walking Forward-Running Past
- Artist
- Date
- 1971
- Location
- Not on view
- Copyright
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© 1971 John Baldessari. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- single-channel video, black and white, sound; 12:45 minutes
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure male
- Object Number
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2007.33.8
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
