Full of Hope (from the series About Her)
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image, approx: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper/mount: 28.6 × 19.4 cm (11 5/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- photography
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
self-portraitsphotographic techniquesphotographygelatin silver printphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyportraitphotographportraits: Polish subjectportraits20th Centurysilver gelatin print
About
At home the woman stood at the hall mirror and looked herself in the eye—not to see anything special but as a way of thinking about herself calmly. She spoke out loud: “I don’t care what you people think. The more you have to say about me, the freer I will be of you. Sometimes I have the impression that the moment we discover something new about a person it stops being true.” —Peter Handke, The Left-Handed Woman (1976),quoted by Teresa Gierzyńska in a 2017 exhibition of her work
