Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller
Sixteen Studies from VEGETABLE LOCOMOTION, 1975
Set of sixteen 11 inch x 14 inch gelatin silver prints
Price on request

The “Vegetable Locomotion” series is Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller’s playful 1975 take on Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments with capturing motion. This is the last complete, estate-held set available to the public. This series is in several museums, including the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, and the Walker Art Center. All images are signed by both artists on verso. Provenance: The Estate of Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller.

Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) is an avant-garde icon. He is internationally recognized as a pioneering filmmaker, art theorist, photographer, and writer. From 1973 through 1984, Frampton was on the Department of Media Study faculty at the University at Buffalo.

In 2012, the prestigious Criterion Collection released a two-disc DVD set of Frampton’s films. In 2015, Dean Brownrout Modern/Contemporary, in partnership with CEPA Gallery, reintroduced his photographic print work to the public in the most comprehensive exhibition of his photographs in 30 years. The show received wide-reaching attention and honors. Subsequent solo exhibitions of his photographs in New York City, London, and Zurich followed.

Frampton’s works are held in many important collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Harvard University, Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Marion Faller (1941-2014) was a photographer and professor of studio photography and photographic history. She taught at Colgate University, Hunter College, Marymount Manhattan College, and, from 1982 to 2006, at the University at Buffalo. Her diverse artistic practice, laced with humor and a social documentarian’s eye, spanned 50 years, encompassing black and white work, collage, xerographic art, and large-scale color photography capturing public displays of various cultural traditions.

Faller exhibited widely in her lifetime. Her photographs are held in important collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Castellani Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, and the Walker Art Center.