Jan Groover

4 unique large-format Polaroid Polacolor prints, each numbered and 2 with technical notations in ink in the margin, one framed, circa 1978 (4)

Crossed Knives exhibited:

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 129 (Crossed Knives)

These Polacolor Polaroid prints are in generally excellent condition. The colors are bright and with no apparent fading. In high raking light, a few negligible crescent-shaped creases are visible which do not effect the images. The top and bottom margins are unevenly trimmed and there is slight rippling. There are small adhesive remains along the top margins. On the reverse of the prints, there is light rust-colored staining along the left and/or right edges.
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