Four to Five, 1962, printed 1991

Four to Five shows a grid of sixteen photographs of Snow’s Walking Woman in urban spaces, including on the street and in a subway station. This work is part of Snow’s famous Walking Woman series, 1961–67, which includes hundreds of individual works based on a stylized cutout of a walking woman. Lacking feet and hands, the figure may bring to mind the famous ancient Greek sculpture Venus de Milo, 130–100 BCE. Nevertheless, in this work the Walking Woman is firmly situated in the contemporary world of the early 1960s. Snow was interested in placing this two-dimensional form into three-dimensional space outside of the gallery, and then returning it to two-dimensionality through photography.