Kodak Dry Plate Still Life
Artist
Doris Ulmann
(American, 1882 - 1934)
Dateca. 1916-1920
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 1/16 × 6 3/16 inches (17.94 × 15.72 cm)
Mount (1): 13 1/16 × 9 1/2 inches (33.18 × 24.13 cm)
Mount (2): 14 3/16 × 11 3/16 inches (36.04 × 28.42 cm)
Mount (1): 13 1/16 × 9 1/2 inches (33.18 × 24.13 cm)
Mount (2): 14 3/16 × 11 3/16 inches (36.04 × 28.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2261
SignedOn mount 1 recto, lower right, in pencil: "Doris Ulmann"
InscribedOn mount 2 verso, center, in pencil: "(c) #29A / Kodak Dry Plate Still Life / (Platinum Print)".
MarkingsOn mount 2 verso, upper left, in pink pencil: "1907"
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L10
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DescriptionImage of a Kodak box for a "standard extremely rapid dry plate" stored diagonally in a notched wooden stand.Gallery LabelThis geometric still life is made from items important to any artistic photographer of the time—a box of glass plate negatives and a rack used to dry them, turned on its side. This early image by Doris Ulmann was made at the beginning of her photographic career while she studied with noted photographer Clarence White. White’s teaching emphasized the importance of transforming the familiar world into semi-abstract geometric forms, a lesson Ulmann skillfully demonstrates in her photograph.
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