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[Baum als Wald, Frühjahr ohne Blätter, Kamera-Bewegung (Tree as Forest, Spring without Leaves, Camera Movement)
Creator
Ella Bergmann-MichelGerman Photographer · 1896–1971
All works by this person →Ella Bergmann-Michel studied art in Weimar, Germany, and set up a studio there in 1918. The following year she married the artist Robert Michel. Together they pioneered the use of collage using photographs. Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp included their work in *Société Anonyme,* a collection of works by mostly European Dada artists. In 1920 Bergmann-Michel moved to Vockenhausen, near Frankfurt. She co
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- 1925–1926
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This image is an enlarged still from one of Ella Bergmann-Michel's films. She was associated with the avant-garde groups *das neue frankfurt* and *Liga für den unabhängigen Film* (Independent Film League) in the early 1930s and made several social documentary films. This tree study is more experimental in nature than her films, subtly portraying the subject from an unconventional angle suspended in a fleeting moment in time.
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