
Depression. Jealousy. Aggression
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- 21 1/8 × 29 3/16" (53.7 × 74.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- John Hilliard
Artist

Photography
John Hilliard is a British photographer and conceptual artist born in 1945 whose practice interrogates the indexical nature of the photograph itself. Working primarily with color and black-and-white film since the 1970s, he employs systematic intervention in the photographic process to expose how meaning shifts through framing, exposure, and sequence. His work sits at the intersection of conceptual art and photography, treating the medium as a site of linguistic and perceptual instability rather than transparent documentation.
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‘Facade’ and ‘Flight of Happiness’
1982 · Photograph, colour, on paper and board
Langdale Fell, Motion Frozen/Frozen Motion
1979 · Photograph, black and white, on board and transfer lettering
Easing Herself Up...The Illness was not serious...As she lay there, not moving
1976 · Chromogenic prints, printed 2014
Camera Recording its Own Condition (7 Apertures, 10 Speeds, 2 Mirrors)
1971 · 70 photographs, black and white, on card on Perspex
Sixty Seconds of Light
1970 · 12 photographs, black and white, on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- John Hilliard
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- 21 1/8 × 29 3/16" (53.7 × 74.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-M110134
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




