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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Bones Sez to Baby Gene Pool "It's Just Like Life Flashing Before Your Eyes"
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Bones Sez to Baby Gene Pool "It's Just Like Life Flashing Before Your Eyes"

Artist Robert Fichter (American, 1939 - 2023)
Date1982
Made/manufacturedTempe, Arizona, USA
MediumLithograph with offset photolithography, Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University
Dimensionsimage/paper: 22 1/4 x 30 in. (56.5 x 76.2 cm)
mat: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 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 number2008.9.13
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DescriptionA skeleton with an elongated skull holds a baby at the bottom right; butterfly at the bottom left; horse/donkey and dog in midground; man with a cowboy hat rides a horse in front of mountains and a palm tree in the distance; a picture of a fish and a female telephone/telegraph operator c. 1910 embracing a large map of the United States of America.
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Robert Fichter
n.d.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Frank Mechau
1937
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Frank Hamilton Taylor
1880
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Mexico,Yucatan, Ticul, northern Maya
800-1000
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Robert Fichter
1987
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Todd Walker
n.d.
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Todd Walker
1981
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Todd Walker
1984
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Maggie Taylor
2006