Will Work For #4
<p>Laura Aguilar, <em>Will Work For #4</em>, 1993. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 19 × 12 7/8 in. (48.3 × 32.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund 2019.394. © Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1993
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 19 × 12 7/8 in. (48.3 × 32.7 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Laura Aguilar
Artist

Printmaking
Laura Aguilar was an American photographer whose large-format color work examined identity, desire, and the body through intimate self-portraiture and landscapes. Working primarily in chromogenic and Polaroid processes, she created unflinching images that positioned her Chicana lesbian experience at the center of her artistic inquiry. Her practice resisted conventional beauty standards and institutional narratives, asserting presence and agency through direct, unmediated representation. Aguilar's work gained sustained critical attention in the final decade of her life.
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Record
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- Laura Aguilar
- Year
- 1993
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 19 × 12 7/8 in. (48.3 × 32.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1993-170920
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





