id: 376242 accession number: 2020.76 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.76 updated: 2022-01-04 18:12:49.384000 Mankind (An Oriental, a Caucasian, and a Black weighted according to current population statistics), 1983-85, printed 1999. Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.8 x 19.4 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.); framed: 48.4 x 44.5 cm (19 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.76 title: Mankind (An Oriental, a Caucasian, and a Black weighted according to current population statistics) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1983-85, printed 1999 creation date earliest: 1983 creation date latest: 1985 current location: creditline: The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948) - artist --- measurements: Image: 22.8 x 19.4 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.); Framed: 48.4 x 44.5 cm (19 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: edition 14/15 support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on recto: "Mankind © 1983-5 Nancy Burson (signed) 14/15" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Studio of the Artist date: 1999 footnotes: citations: (Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA) date: 2000 footnotes: citations: John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH date: 2000-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 2, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Burson used pictures from a 19th-century book of racial stereotypes and weighted their visibility in the resulting composite to reflect world population statistics in the mid-1980s. digital description: Although the image, if done with 2020 population statistics, might not look terribly different, the concept of race has changed in the intervening decades. Racial identity is often now discussed as a social rather than biological construct and is no longer considered a valid division by most geneticists. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Burson, Nancy, Richard Carling, and David Kramlich. Composites: Computer-Generated Portraits. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986. page number: url: Burson, Nancy, Michael L. Sand, Lynn Gumpert, Terrie Sultan, and Christopher C. French. Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2002. page number: url: --- IMAGES