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>
Equilibrium
Presented by the artist 1981
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
photographic
paper print photograph black white
Equilibrium
image: 384 × 378 mm
Presented by the artist 1981
<p><b>P07515</b> EQUILIBRIUM 1975
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<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Photograph, printed by Michael Dyer Associates, published by the artist and Anthony Stokes in an edition of 15, 15 1/8× 14 7/8 (38.4×37.8)
<br/>Purchased from Antoinette Godkin (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>A colour version of this image was made at the same time as the group of six black and white photographic works mentioned above [<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>], but was later destroyed. A version with stronger lighting and darker shadows was made to be illustrated in Photomontage by Dawn Ades (Thames &amp;Hudson, 1976) but otherwise not shown, and a unique colour polaroid of the same subject was made in 1975. The <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>photographs</span></a> were taken by the artist and Michael Dyer, and mounted by the artist and Anthony Stokes.
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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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