Phat Free
David Hammons
1995/1999 · Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 5 min., 4 sec. · Photographs
Part shaman, part huckster, Hammons has sold snowballs on an uptown sidewalk; created elegant, slightly less ephemeral sculpture from chicken bones and human hair gathered from a Harlem barbershop; and exhibited a billboard portrait of Jesse Jackson in whiteface outside the 1990 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Both raucous and haunting, Phat Free is the artist's only video.
- Artist
- David Hammons
- Date
- 1995/1999
- Medium
- Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, color, sound, 5 min., 4 sec.
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2003
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