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[African Wood Sculpture, in Profile]
Creator
Charles SheelerAmerican Photographer · 1883–1965
All works by this person →> My interest in photography, paralleling that in painting, has been based on admiration for its possibility of accounting for the visual world with an exactitude not equaled by any other medium. The difference in the manner of arrival at their destination--the painting being the result of a composite image and the photograph being the result of a single image--prevents these media from being comp
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- 1918
- Medium
- Toned gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 42a1556f-af0b-469e-8630-1862f19a1b78
From the Getty Museum record
Still life of a carved wooden sculpture viewed from the side, depicting a nude female form photographed from the chest up in profile. The figure’s arms are bent in toward the chest, cut off at the hands; bare breasts are exposed, with narrow eyes and a protruding mouth. Light from the right casts dark shadows on the left.
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