Object number2001.6.18
Distortion #88
Date1933
Artist
André Kertész
(American b.Hungary, 1894-1985)
CultureHungarian, American
MediumGelatin silver print, printed c. 1967
DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27.6 x 34.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.6 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, signed upper center in pencil: A Kertesz
InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper center in pencil: List 88 - Paris 1933; by unidentified hand, lower right corner: 87-0068; lower center edge: FLLAC2001.6.18; lower left: P.G.
MarkingsOn verso, stamped left center [vertically: This photograph may only be reproduced / for review purposes in connection with / the photographic exhibit "THE CONCERNED / PHOTOGRAPHER" Copyright © 1967; stamped center [vertically]: © ANDRE KERTESZ
BibliographyNicolas Ducrot, ed. Distortions: Andre Kertesz (New York: Knopf, 1976), unpaginated. Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition History(Possibly) The Concerned Photographer, The Riverside Museum, October 1, 1967 - January 7, 1968;Ways of Unseeing in Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 26 - December 22, 2022
DescriptionBlack and white image of a seated nude woman with cropped hair, distorted so she appears elongated and connected at the head, arm, and legs, creating a second figure.
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