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Still Life, Pear and Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut

Photograph
1916 (photographed), 1983 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A black and white photograph depicting a still life image consisting of a jumbled composition of different sized bowls, mostly white, and a pear.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Still Life, Pear and Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut (assigned by artist)
  • Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-pulled dust grain photogravure made by the Talbot-Klic photogravure process printed onto Lana Gravure paper
Brief description
Photograph by Paul Strand, 'Still Life, Pear and Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut', from the portfolio 'Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917', a portfolio of ten hand-pulled dust grain photogravures printed by Jon Goodman, published by the Silver Mountain Foundation with an introduction by Ben Lifson, USA, 1983, photographed 1916
Physical description
A black and white photograph depicting a still life image consisting of a jumbled composition of different sized bowls, mostly white, and a pear.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33.4cm
  • Width: 15.9cm
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund
Production
The film positives were made from enlarged internegatives made by Paul Strand between 1916 and 1917 from his original negatives of 1914-16. The plates were made by Jon Goodman and printed under his supervision at Atelier de Taille Douce, Saint-Preux, Switzerland and at the Photogravure workshop, Millerton, New York, on Lana Gravure paper from the Papeteries de Lana, Docelles, France.
Collection
Accession number
RPS.3172:6-2018

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Record createdAugust 14, 2018
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