Hannah Wilke, With Sculptures in Snow, 1978. Archival photograph. Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt. Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACs, London
Handle With Care
1987
Performalist Self-Portrait with Donald Goddard
Thermometer, black and white photographs, rubber-stamped “Hannahgram” verso
Edition of 250
Hannah Wilke refered to Handle with Care as a Performalist Self-portrait, referring to a practice she devloped in the 1970s which reversed normative subject and photographer roles. Wilke would pose and then direct the photographer to shoot.