Mask
Artist
Fred R. Archer
(American, 1889 - 1963)
Dateca. 1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 inches (23.65 × 18.57 cm)
Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.72 × 35.56 cm)
Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.72 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3873
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Mount
Exhibition Label(s)
"Exhibited at Studio of the Department of Photography; Brooklyn Institute....."
Back of Mount
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
The artistic scene in the years after World War I was characterized by a remarkable sense of energy and experimentation. Beginning primarily in Europe, avant-garde photographers began working with a host of unconventional techniques, including cameraless images (photograms), negative images and unusual vantage points. Fred Archer, a relatively little-known figure, was one of the first Americans to produce a complete body of non-objective, artistic photographs. Beginning as early as about 1917, he made images like this one by recording abstract patterns of reflected light.
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