Heavy Roses
Photograph
1914 (made)
1914 (made)
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Photogravure in black and white showing rose flowers, tightly cropped with some black background.
Object details
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| Title | Heavy Roses (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photogravure |
| Brief description | Photograph by Edward Steichen, 'Heavy Roses', Voulangis, France. Photogravure taken from portfolio 'The Early Years 1900-1927', 1914. |
| Physical description | Photogravure in black and white showing rose flowers, tightly cropped with some black background. |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100 ‘A History of Photography’, 2014-2015, label text:
Edward Steichen (1879–1973)
‘Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France’
1914, printed 1981
This is probably the last photograph Steichen took in France before the outbreak of the First World War. The image of sensual blooms slowly withering can be viewed as a metaphor for the ensuing tragedy. The image has a painterly quality and was taken when Steichen aspired to be a painter. After the war, he returned to Voulangis and destroyed all of his paintings.
Photogravure
Museum no. Ph.303-1982
(06 03 2014) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | PH.303-1982 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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