The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 9, 2026

A horizontally oriented color photograph depicts two men and a woman, all with light skin tones. On our left, a man in a blue blazer and patterned sash looks toward our left. Beside him, a man in a lavender shirt wears a red fringed sash and looks toward our right. In the blurred foreground on our right, a woman in an ornate jeweled costume holds finger cymbals, her bare midriff and hands illuminated.

Saturday Night, Pritikin Diet Center, Miami Beach, Florida

1984

Jeff Jacobson

(American, 1946–2020)
America
cibachrome
Paper: 40.3 x 50.6 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.); Image: 40.3 x 50.6 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Purchased with funds donated by Jolene Friedman and Harold Eisenman in memory of their dear friend Jeff Jacobson 2020.274
© Jeff Jacobson
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Nathan Pritikin, an engineer, developed a low-fat diet and exercise regimen after learning he had heart disease.

Description

Showing social hour at a health retreat, Jeff Jacobson’s photograph puts the viewer into the scene. By combining a strobe flash with a slow shutter speed, Jacobson makes the solid contours of figures melt and makes the light seem to throb. The gaze and expressions of the two men eyeing the dancer’s exposed, gyrating flesh create a humorous, yet also judgmental, scene.
  • Jeff Jacobson (the artist) [1946-2020], Mt. Tremper, NY
    Henry Jacobson, Los Angeles, CA
    December 7, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • {{cite web|title=Saturday Night, Pritikin Diet Center, Miami Beach, Florida|url=false|author=Jeff Jacobson|year=1984|access-date=09 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.274