Little Red Corvette, 2018 (printed 2020)
Alec William Sothexpand_more
Archival pigment printexpand_more
The Linda and Lawrence Perlman Photography Endowmentexpand_more 2020.55.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
Taken as part of a series of photographs for a 2018 article in Vogue magazine written by Rebecca Bengal (“In the Place Where Prince Lived”) Soth’s photograph of sheet music atop an electric piano conjures an intimate space of personal memory-keeping. While many of Soth’s photographs indirectly contemplate matters of race—including prisoners working the fields in Louisiana, the face of Martin Luther King, Jr., appearing in tattered news clippings, a young Black person wearing a corset-like belt, pearl earrings, and the ghost of a goatee in New Orleans—his image of Miho Takayama’s Minneapolis living room reveals the transcultural impact of a Black pop phenomenon. Takayama moved to Minnesota from Japan out of a love for Prince’s music and a desire to attend his parties at Paisley Park. Soth’s image of her living room is a poignant testimony to the memory of the artist and to the experience of loss felt by Prince’s fans when he passed away in 2016.
Details
- Title
- Little Red Corvette
- Artist Life
- born 1969
- Role
- Photographer
- Accession Number
- 2020.55.1
- Curator Approved
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