Repetition
Artist
Kurt Baasch
(American, born Venezuela, 1891 - 1964)
Date1913
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/8 × 12 1/4 inches (21.27 × 31.12 cm)
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 11/16 inches (22.38 × 32.23 cm)
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 11/16 inches (22.38 × 32.23 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3878
Signednone
InscribedOn sheet verso, top edge, in pencil: [partially erased inscription, unreadable]
On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "B3C"
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionVintage platinum print, unmounted and untrimmed, of four people walking; one (woman) carrying umbrella.Gallery LabelKurt Baasch grew up in Germany, where he took up photography at age 14. Upon his arrival in New York in 1911, he met Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Paul Strand and other key figures in fine-art photography circles. Baasch was fascinated by the dynamism of city life. Here, he distills the vast energy of modern life to a kind of pictorial haiku. The city is reduced to the simplest vocabulary of form, while the human presence is conveyed by four figures, all unrelated, who pass without acknowledgment.
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