Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last
Safety Last

© Catherine Yass. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Jerwood Collection

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'Safety Last' is the first set of etchings produced by Yass. The group of eight prints takes stills from the iconic silent comedy, 'Safety Last!' (1923). The film culminates with a memorable scene, in which a character, hanging from a giant clock at the top of a skyscraper, pulls the hands downwards, and forcibly reverses time.
In this set of prints Yass has scratched the surface of the film itself, a way of working which recalls the etching of a plate. This highlights the parallels between lens-based media (such as photography or film-making) and etching, as forms of image-making. They both originate in a ‘negative’ process (the image being carved out of the etching plate or exposed onto negative) and require the damaging of a surface to produce an image.

Jerwood Collection

Title

Safety Last

Date

2011

Medium

etchings on paper

Measurements

H 25.7 x W 20.9 cm

Accession number

JC167 - 174

Acquisition method

purchased, 2011

Work type

Print

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Jerwood Collection

England

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