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Baby Gene Pool's First Photograph
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
Collections
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.
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Robert Fichter
undated
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Heian Zohiko Studio
late 1920s-1930s
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Unknown Chinese Artist
late 19th century
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Todd Hido
1996
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Arnold Mesches
2008
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Fabiola Jean-Louis
Image 2016; printed 2021
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Everett Shinn
1904
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Robert Fichter
c. 1975