A photograph titled The Oculist Witnesses (1967) by artist Richard Hamilton, featuring the artist Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp, a pioneering French-American artist known for his association with the Dada, surrealist, and conceptual art movements. Duchamp is pictured holding a glass study related to his famous large-scale artwork, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass). The photographer, Richard Hamilton, was a British painter and collage artist who was a friend and admirer of Duchamp. The photograph documents Duchamp engaging with his own complex artistic processes and theories, specifically focusing on the intersection of text and image.
The Oculist Witnesses
(featuring artist Marcel Duchamp)
silver gelatin print
1967
Richard Hamilton
UK
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