Untitled
- Title:
- Untitled
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
- Creator:
- Foto Ada
- Creation Date:
- Late 1930s-early 1940s
- ID Number:
- 2019
- File Name:
- 2019.045.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- halftone prints
collage - Subject:
- Art and Photography
Collage
Fascism
gas masks - Measurement:
- 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 (inches, height x width)
- Description:
- Collage of people in gas masks doing banal things. Large and relatively central to the image are two women in gas masks carrying babies in full body gas mask sacks, tinted olive green. Each woman has a tube from her mouth to the baby's head. The woman in front is looking back at the other as though they are in conversation. In front of the women, to the lower left, are two people in radiation suits mask to mask, as though kissing, tinted brown. Behind them, to the left of the women, also tinted in brown is a single person in a full body radiation suit, in a pose like they are waiting to cross a street. And in the top quarter of the image, behind the women and the lone figure, is a street, tinted sienna, full of people walking shoulder to shoulder in gas masks and radiation suits, storefronts visible beyond them.
- Notes:
- Halftone collage.
- Cite As:
- Foto Ada (Elemérné Marsovsky / Ada Ackermann) (Hungarian, died ca. 1944), Untitled, 1930s-early 1940s. Halftone collage, overall: 24.1 x 18.4 cm. Acquired through the Class of 1962 Fund for Photography, TR 10115.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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