Christian Boltanski

a triptych of unique Polaroid Polacolor prints, each framed, Polaroid Collection stamps and Innovation/Imagination and The Art of Caring exhibition labels on the reverse, 1985 (3)

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, May - July 1999, and traveling to 11 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

New Orleans Museum of Art, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, May - October 2009

These prints:

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography (The Friends of Photography, 1999), p. 67

Cynthia Goodman, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography (New York, 2009), pp. 248-49

These Polaroid prints are in generally excellent condition. The colors appear rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. The reverse of each print is hinged with rice-paper tape to a mount. In the illustration of this triptych in the “Innovation/Imagination” exhibition catalogue, a notation in ink can is visible in the lower margin of the central image. The margin of this print has since been trimmed, and only a fragment of the upper portion of this notation remains.
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