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About this work

You see a black-and-white print of a woman lying on her side, her body blurred like a smudged photo. Hamilton made this from a single frame of a 1960s TV ad. He printed it with photogravure—a way of etching a photo onto metal so it looks like a soft pencil drawing. The blur isn’t an accident; it’s the point. It makes the pose feel both real and dreamy at once. If you like how he plays with photos, look up more work by Richard Hamilton.