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Portrait #16, South Africa
2016, printed 2017
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976)
Photography
Portrait #16, South Africa, 2016, printed 2017. Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). Digital chromogenic print; overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.67 © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York Hugo’s series depicts Rwandan and South African children born after 1994, a year marked by Rwandan genocide and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Without direct experience of those horrors, can these children escape past hatreds and build a better world? The brothers' pose echoes an iconic photograph of a child killed during a 1976 uprising against apartheid.
- Maker/Artist
- Hugo, Pieter
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- digital chromogenic print
- Medium
- digital, chromogenic, print
- Dimensions
- Overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.)
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2017.67
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
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