Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby

Rudy Burckhardt · 1946-47

You're looking at Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby — a photograph by the American artist Rudy Burckhardt, nineteen forty-six to nineteen forty-seven. 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.

Medium Gelatin silver prints · Dimensions 7 1/8 × 11 3/4" (18.1 × 29.9 cm) · Credit Gift of CameraWorks, Inc. and Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 402: Hair, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Bourges, Untitled from the series Dear Painter, Paint for Me [Lieber Maler, male mir], Moulin Rouge, Rue de la Santé, Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station, Paris, France, Painter [Anton Räderscheidt]

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