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Untitled
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Untitled

Artist/Culture (American, born 1935)
Artist/Culture (American, born 1933)
Date1966
Mediumgelatin silver print with a photographic negative and drawing (cliché verre)
Dimensionsimage: 41.9 × 51.8 cm (16 1/2 × 20 3/8 in.)
sheet: 50.5 × 60.6 cm (19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineJerome Wheelock Fund
Object number1973.18
DescriptionWoman's face placed within a drawn composition of repeated upright and inverted images. print (from a photographic negative with drawing).
Label TextCollaborators Blumberg and Gill used the cliché verre technique, a combination of photography and drawing. By drawing opaque lines onto a transparent object or photographic negative while developing the image, this process allows an artist to create hand-drawn photographic images. Since there are multiple ways to execute cliché verre, a finished work can contain any combination of traditional photographic images and drawings. Blumberg and Gill were fascinated by depictions of mundane situations and everyday objects. These two untitled portraits challenge traditional notions of composition by rotating the orientation of faces and combining multiple variations of a single image within a work. The assemblage of headshots possesses an informality often associated with collage.ProvenancePurchase from Donald Blumberg, Cambridge, MA
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