Photograph, black and white, on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tim-head-1259" aria-label="More by Tim Head" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Tim Head</a>
Black Light
Purchased 1982
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
photographic
paper print photograph black white
Black Light
image: 749 × 479 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><b>P07615</b> BLACK LIGHT 1973
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<br/>Inscribed ‘1973’ and ‘Black Light’ and ‘ed.15’ on back
<br/>Photograph, printed by Michael Dyer Associates and published by the artist and Anthony Stokes, 29 1/2×18 7/8 (75×48)
<br/>Purchased from Anthony Stokes (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>Photography</span></a> for both [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/head-ambidextrous-p07616" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07616</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/head-black-light-p07615" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07615</span></a>] was by the artist with Chris Davies; they were printed by Michael Dyer Associates and mounted by the artist. Both are from a group of six black and white photographic works made in 1973–4 in which plays upon mirror-image illusions, paradoxes and reversals are used to test ‘reality’.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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