June 7, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears

Photograph

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2020.11d

Description

A woman. the artist, standing on a deck that looks out to the water. Her face and eyes are cast downwards.

Context

For 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears, Nakadate, responding to the proliferation of images of happiness flooding social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, photographed herself crying every day for the entirety of 2010. The result is a massive and moving collection of images of intense fragility that eschews the traditional subject matter of portraiture and femininity: the stoic pose of the heroic male or the artificial smiles of women in advertising and commercial contexts. Rarely shown looking at the camera directly, Nakadate exposes the tensions and violence long associated with the photographic medium, which Susan Sontag famously argued was at once sexual and aggressive in its attempt to “capture” its subject matter.

Acquisition

Accession

2020.11

Source or Donor

Anthony T. Podesta

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of the Podesta Collection, Washington, DC

Made/Created

Artist

Laurel Nakadate

Date made

2011

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Crying, Feminism, Self-portraits

Dimensions

Height

40 in

Width

50 in

Exhibition

Life Cycles

Interpretative Labels

Label

Laurel Nakadate (b. 1975) June 4, 2010 June 5, 2010 June 7, 2010 From the series 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears, 2011 Digital photo Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Podesta Collection, Washington, DC, 2020.11d, 2020.11b, 2020.11a In 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears, Laurel Nakadate documents a year-long, daily performance, beginning January 1, 2010, in which the artist eternalized the brief moments before, during, and after weeping. This project, contemporaneous with the appearance of social media platforms like Instagram, probes themes of voyeurism, loneliness, selfies, and the manipulative power of the camera in a spectacle of pure human emotion. Laurel Nakadate (n. 1975) 4 de junio de 2010 5 de junio de 2010 7 de junio de 2010 De la serie 365 días. Un catálogo de lágrimas, 2011 Fotografía digital Colección del Museo de Arte DePaul, donadas por la Colección Podesta, Washington, D. C., 2020.11d, 2020.11b, 2020.11a En 365 días. Un catálogo de lágrimas, Laurel Nakadate documenta una performance diaria de un año de duración que comenzó el 1o de enero de 2010 en que la artista perennizó los breves momentos antes, durante y después del llanto. Ese proyecto, contemporáneo a la aparición de plataformas de redes sociales como Instagram, indaga temas como el voyerismo, la soledad, las selfies y el poder manipulativo de la cámara en un espectáculo de emoción humana pura.