Real time
(1968-1974); published 1976
Medium
artist's book: photo-offset lithographs and printed text, 46 folios, printed paper cover, glued binding
Measurements
20.5 × 38.0 × 0.8 cm (closed)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Photography, 2021
© Eve Sonneman
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Real Time is composed of paired photographs taken seconds apart, separated by a black-line border. This presentation allows the viewer to consider the relationship between the images, and the small changes and passing of time between them. Eve Sonneman first showed the photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before publishing them as a book. In 1976 she saw an advertisement in Artforum from newly established press Printed Matter, which was seeking artists’ books to publish. ‘So I sent [my photographs] in and that work became my first published book, Real Time,’ Sonneman recalled. ‘I was as thrilled as could be!’
New acquisition
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
New York, New York, United States
Edition
1st edition
Accession Number
2021.683
Department
International Photography