FILTER RESULTS
Winners of Little People of America King and Queen Contest
ca. 1970-197112 x 16 15/16 in. (30.5 x 43 cm)
Leslie Krims
United States
Object Type:
Photograph
Medium and Support:
Sepia-toned silver print
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.404
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
The iconoclast photographer Les Krims, who has taught at SUNY Buffalo since 1969, has been the subject of both admiration and indignation. His staged tableaux, which he calls his “fictions,” have been influenced by Lenny Bruce, Rube Goldberg, Willem deKooning, and Peter Saul, among others. Much of his work has been an overt criticism of social documentary form and content. The portfolio from which this photograph comes was made over the course of two national conventions of the Little People of America. “These people annihilated the stereotype of ‘dwarf’ delivered by art history and socially concerned photography,” Krims says. “I thought my pictures rightly showed them as normal people who possessed oversized amounts of strong, straight, American character, and much courage.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Acquisition: The Charles Rand Penney Foundation Collection. Article Scope: article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 41, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: February 1976.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1976.
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It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013