Berlin
Artist
György Kepes
(American, 1906 - 2002)
Date1930
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 × 4 1/4 inches (7.62 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4175
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Back of Print
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a figure made from the waist down walking down city sidewalk. Light source is behind the figure, casting a shadow of his legs in front of the figure. Early 20th centruy automobiles line the street to the left of the figure.Exhibition HistoryRotation 3. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 20 – August 18, 2008, no cat.
György Kepes turned to photography after working in both painting and film. A protégé of László Moholy Nagy, a fellow Hungarian and artistic modernist, Kepes’s photographs extend Moholy-Nagy’s fascination for unusual perspectives and bold contrasts of light and dark. Here, Kepes’s unconventional viewpoint charges an ordinary subject with a sense of instability and ominous unease.
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1989;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1989;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of György Kepes / Imre Kepes and Juliet Kepes Stone
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