Untitled
Artist
Donald Blumberg
and (American, born 1935)
Artist
Charles Gill
(American, born 1933)
Date1966
Mediumgelatin silver print with a photographic negative and drawing (cliché verre)
Dimensionsimage: 42.1 × 51.8 cm (16 9/16 × 20 3/8 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 60.7 cm (20 × 23 7/8 in.)
sheet: 50.8 × 60.7 cm (20 × 23 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineJerome Wheelock Fund
Terms
Object number1973.15
DescriptionEight positive images of a woman's head and torso at lower left and eight negatives images at top right combined with drawingLabel 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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