Untitled (From the History Series), 1999, is a pairing of two photographs from the artist's body of work shot on location at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. In it, Jacobson sought to show the same kind of emotion and sensitivity he has brought to his live subjects; specifically, these works single in on the nature of memory and time as represented by an inanimate object such as a sculpture or painting. He points this out in particular by showing how these 'figures' can represent the human spirit, while essentially being 'dead' objects. Working with the museum collection, Jacobson was struck by how the subjects not only speak of the past but the future as well. Untitled (From the History Series) has been exhibited in Digital: Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum, NY and Home is Where the Art Is, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; and is in the collection of the New York Public Library, NY.

Bill Jacobson has had solo exhibitions at FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France; Milliken, Stockholm; the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, the University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria, the Photographer's Gallery, London and the Grey Art Gallery, NY, as well as many gallery shows. He has been included in group exhibitions: OOG-EYE, Foam, Amsterdam; The Machine, The Body, The City, Miami Art Museum, FL; In Sight, Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, IL; Sans Regard, Recontre de la Photographie, Arles, France; Horrors of War, Worchester Museum of Art, MA; In Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; New to View: Recent Acquisitions of Photography, Worchester Museum of Art, MA; New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria; Landscape as Metaphor, Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany; Embodiment, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Bowdin College Art Museum, ME, Solitude & Focus, the Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI, Austin Museum of Art, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, San Francisco Camerawork, CA, the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX, Princeton University Art Museum, the Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, GA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, the Seattle Art Museum, WA, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, the Armand Hammer Museum, CA, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, the Museo d'Arte Modern, Bolzano, Italy, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, TX. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New York Public Library, NY, the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, the Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, the Spencer Art Museum, MI, the St. Louis Museum of Art, MI, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Bill Jacobson is represented by Julie Saul Gallery, NY.

Other artworks by Bill Jacobson

#3839/#3561 2000, 2002