Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris)

Roger Schall · 1938

Before you is Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris) — a photograph by the French artist Roger Schall, nineteen thirty-eight. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray. You can pick out the interior room.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 8 11/16 × 8 5/16" (22.1 × 21.1 cm) · Credit The Family of Man Fund

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Nine Malic Moulds and The Capillary Tubes (supplementary suite, plate 8) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Handmade Stereopticon Slide

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, The Heiress, The Piano Lesson, The Red Studio, Measurement Room, Saturday Night in a New England Kitchen

More by Roger Schall here: Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris)