Photographing While Driving Should Be Discouraged

1983

Michael Sarnacki American, born 1950

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Title Photographing While Driving Should Be Discouraged

Artwork Date 1983

Artist Michael Sarnacki

Life Dates born 1950

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 8 × 11 inches (20.3 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the artist in honor of the opening of the Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1983.281.19

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Signed Signed, in pencil, on verso, lower right: Michael Sarnacki

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, lower right: 1/30 Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, lower center: Aug 1983 Inscribed, lower center: Photographing While Driving Should Be Discouraged Inscribed, in black ink, on verso, lower center, by the artist: Every working day for the past three years I've driven under what is known as | the Southfield/Jeffries Interchange. At most times this area is bumper to bumper | with terrible stop and go traffic; but most of the time it's the only one mile | stretch of the Southfield Freeway that opens up to fast and free driving. | I've seen some of the worst accidents on my way to work and back. | Photographing while driving should be discouraged.

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the artist, Michael Sarnacki (Royal Oak, Michigan, USA)

1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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