Untitled
Edmund Collein
German, 1906–1992
Heinz Loew
German, 1903–1981
1927–28
A gelatin silver print in which Collein stages a dramatic interplay of projected shadow and a posed figure to blur scale and create a cinematic, doubled identity.
You are first struck by the enormous silhouetted profile that fills the foreground like a looming mask, while a sharply lit, smaller man in a bowler hat stands in the background, turning the scene theatrical and uncanny.
Made in the late 1920s, the photograph exemplifies interwar modernist experiments with lighting, montage, and staged mise-en-scène that pushed photography from straightforward documentation toward psychological and cinematic storytelling.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
4 1/2 × 3 3/8" (11.5 × 8.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Thomas Walther Collection. Abbott-Levy Collection funds, by exchange
Accession
1658.2001
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