Your Photographs Must Be

Basic Information

Title: Your Photographs Must Be
Artist(s): Leslie Roberts
Date Created: 2016
Framed Dimensions: 16.5 x 13.5 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 14 x 11 in.
Medium:
Inventory ID: Roberts-2016-01

Description

titled above the image upper left

signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel

 

handwritten text and list of US passport regulations:

Excerpt: your photographs must be / two by two inches in size / identical / taken within the

last six months / showing current appearance / color or black-and-white/ full face / front view /

with a plain white or off-white background / between one inch and one and three eighth inches

 

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Why

Created in 2019 by Leslie Roberts

signed, titled, dated, size, and medium written on the back of the panel handwritten text: Sentences preceded by “why,” from news reports, email, and other sources. Transcript: Is this happening Did I get this Aren’t people angrier Do you want this job Can’t we sleep Am I writing you Do filmmakers love van Gogh Would […]


True False

Created in 2019 by Leslie Roberts

title, date, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel   handwritten text list of oppositions: True/false, anxious/serene, bizarre/ordinary, positive/uncertain, digital/analog, uptown/downtown, compliant/resistant, rough/gentle, systematic/arbitrary, orderly/disheveled, heavy/light, friend/foe, binary/non-binary . . .


Metro To Fulton

Created in 2016 by Leslie Roberts

titled above the image upper left signed, and dated on the back of the panel   Handwritten text: Signs and ads read during a subway trip Excerpt: Lorimer St, Metropolitan Grand, plan ahead, I was scared silly, local, litter stops here, help point, service exit, apply now, emergency instructions, caution, this area has been baited […]


In Case Of

Created in 2016 by Leslie Roberts

titled above the image upper left titled on the back of the panel   Handwritten text: Found words and phrases preceded by “in case of,” listed alphabetically. Transcript: accident, allergic reaction, avalanche, bad weather, bee sting, bankruptcy, bad news, choking, concussion, copyright infringement, divorce, death, damage or loss, doubt, emergency, Ebola, epileptic seizure, electric shock, […]