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Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10), 2002-2005

  • Artist

    Leslie Hewitt

  • Title

    Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10)

  • Date

    2002-2005

  • Medium

    Digital chromogenic print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm) Frame: 40 × 20 in. (101.6 × 50.8 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 2 of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg

  • Object Number

    2011.11.2

Each work in Riffs on Real Time is a stack of photographs and texts, assembled with an attention to color and photographed from above. Here, Leslie Hewitt places a photograph on top of an orange book set on plush orange carpet. These objects are as familiar as they are strange—items that might have been pulled from boxes in our grandparents’ basement, but we do not recognize them. Hewitt’s images speak to, assemble, and document a kind of collective family history and archive that shows the links we all share.


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Artworks

Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10), 2002-2005

  • Artist

    Leslie Hewitt

  • Title

    Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10)

  • Date

    2002-2005

  • Medium

    Digital chromogenic print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm) Frame: 40 × 20 in. (101.6 × 50.8 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 2 of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg

  • Object Number

    2011.11.2

Each work in Riffs on Real Time is a stack of photographs and texts, assembled with an attention to color and photographed from above. Here, Leslie Hewitt places a photograph on top of an orange book set on plush orange carpet. These objects are as familiar as they are strange—items that might have been pulled from boxes in our grandparents’ basement, but we do not recognize them. Hewitt’s images speak to, assemble, and document a kind of collective family history and archive that shows the links we all share.


Explore further