Owen Kanzler
Self Portrait

ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Self Portrait
Date1985
Place depictedSeaside Heights, New Jersey, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 15 15/16 × 15 13/16 in. (40.5 × 40.2 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 15 13/16 in. (40.5 × 40.2 cm)
Mount: 27 15/16 × 21 15/16 in. (71 × 55.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2005
Object number2005.1463
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


The aerial photographer Owen Kanzler makes pictures midflight, photographing varied landscapes from the small aircraft he pilots. Taken from a dizzying height above the beach and boardwalk community of Seaside, New Jersey, Kanzler captures beachgoers with an incredible amount of detail. Kanzler’s bird’s-eye perspective flattens the beachgoers and their multi-color accoutrements into a kaleidoscopic dance of colors and patterns across the sandy surface of the beach. Kanzler playfully titled this photograph Self-Portrait, alluding to the shadow cast by his aircraft on the beach’s surface and his dual role as pilot and photographer.



Provenance[Afterimage Gallery, Dallas]; purchased by MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History"Photo Forum 2005," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Lower Brown Corridor; October 3, 2005-January 9, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on the mount, lower right below image: "O. Kanzler"
Stamp with pencil inscriptions on verso mount:
PHOTOGRAPH BY Owen Kanzler / TITLE Self Portrait / PLACE SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY / DATE 1985 / NEGATIVE NUMBER JL 1785-c1416-60"

Printed stamp on verso center mount:: Photograph by / OWEN KANZLER / 606 Hagel Avenue / Linden, NJ 07036 / (908) 486-2262"

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