Arthur Siegel
Nude and Projection

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Artist Arthur Siegel (American, 1913–1978)American, 1913–1978

CultureAmerican

Titles

Nude and Projection

Date1948

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (24.8 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object number91.1077

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAs a student at Chicago’s Institute of Design, Arthur Siegel was greatly influenced by the flexible and expansive conception of photography promoted by its director, László Moholy-Nagy, a former master at the Bauhaus, the revolutionary art school closed by the Nazis in 1933. By 1948, when he made this picture, Siegel had become head of the institute’s photography department. As visually puzzling as his picture is, it is in fact a straightforward photograph of a woman clothed only in the light and shadow of a projected image.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Upper Jones and Wiess Galleries; January 16-March 27, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso lower left near signature " A.S.[circled] Box 19 "
lower right edge reading vertically " ICH-15974 ex E "

verso lower left corner in pencil " Arthur Siegel "

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