Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Baby Gene Pool's First Photograph

Artist Robert Fichter (American, 1939 - 2023)

Date1980s

Made/manufacturedFlorida, USA

MediumLithograph with albumen print insert. Vari Press print

Dimensionsmat: 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
sheet size: 29 3/4 x 41 3/4 in. (75.6 x 106 cm)
print mark: 29 3/4 x 41 3/4 in. (75.6 x 106 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Robert and Nancy Fichter These prints are given in honor of my University of Florida teachers: Ken Kerslake, Jerry Uelsmann and Jack Nichelson without whose support and encouragement I would not have continued to make pictures.

Object number2008.9.12

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DescriptionA baby, surrounded by a camera, cat, and fish, shows off a photograph in a circus-like spotlight while a macabre, disturbed audience looks on including a woman in a red dress, a robot, a conehead; curtains parted in background show four silhouetted figures who could be a musical band or menacing thugs.