Car Window, Delux U.S. Company, San Francisco
Artist
Brett Weston
(American, 1911 - 1993)
Date1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (19.05 x 23.81 cm)
Framed: 19 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches (49.21 x 53.98 cm)
Framed: 19 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches (49.21 x 53.98 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4464
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Mount
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Rotation 9. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 20, 2010 – March 13, 2011, no cat.
The Photographs of Brett Weston. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 23, 2011- March 25, 2012, no cat.
Under the guidance of his father Edward, Brett Weston became an accomplished photographer by 1925, at the age of only 14. He turned his starkly modernist vision on a variety of contemporary subjects, including, in 1936, this gleaming automobile. By playing the sleekly engineered lines of the new car against the visual effects of reflection and transparency, Weston underscored the natural sympathy between a purist use of the camera and the hard-edged functionality of modern machine culture.
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