Work / 1970s to present
Diptychs
Two frames of the same subject, made moments apart, hung side by side. The diptychs have been Sonneman's signature form since the early 1970s: they hold two instants of ordinary time next to each other and let the small change between them carry the picture.
“Black and white diptychs (her trademark, almost) which distill non-sequential time into quivering stillnesses.”
David Cohen, from his essay on the artist
Central Park Pond, New York2019 · Photograph, diptych
Winter Windows, New York2019 · Photograph, diptych
Mystery Men, Venetian Masked Ball, Newport, Rhode Island2016 · Photograph, diptych
La Plage du Carlton à CannesPhotograph, diptych
Escale à St TropezPhotograph, diptych
Cropdusting, Clovis, New MexicoPhotograph, diptych · Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra · Reproduced in Australian National Gallery: An Introduction
Sight/Sound, Samos, GreecePhotograph, diptych · Permanent Collections, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Long Lake, Central Park, New YorkPhotograph, diptych
Coney Island CouplePhotograph, diptych
Sunday BathersPhotograph, diptych
Snow and SandPhotograph, diptych
Sky and GlassPhotograph, diptych
Self Portrait, Chicago1984 · Photograph, diptych
Considerations1976 · Cibachrome diptych, from the series Observations: 1/4 Mile in the Sky · Permanent Collection, Princeton University Art Museum
Horse PassingPhotograph, diptych · Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
Other series: Sonnegrams · Paintings · Watercolors