The Bonham Project (torso side views), Jon O'Neal

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Jon O'Neal, The Bonham Project (torso side views)
Jon O'Neal, The Bonham Project (torso side views)
Jon O'Neal
The Bonham Project (torso side views)
1989
Jon O'Neal
born 1957
The Bonham Project (torso side views), 1989
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 381 x 229 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 15 x 9 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Gift of the artist
Accession number: 1991.0161
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres," Oct-2000, Rachel Epp Buller As both a photographer and a physician, O’Neal approaches the male nude from a scientific rather than strictly aesthetic viewpoint. O’Neal began The Bonham Project in 1985 when he was a medical intern participating in one of the military’s first rounds of systematic tests for the AIDS virus. The men O’Neal examined were HIV positive but bore no outward signs of the disease. His scientific display of torsos, as well as his exclusive focus on the male rather than female body, positions his work as unusual within the artistic genre of the nude.