Los 4279

Roszak, Theodore Jacob
(1907-1981)Photogram

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts
Auktionsdatum 5.6.2024

Photogram. 1937-41. Vintage unique gelatin silver print. 9 x 12 cm. Signed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the verso, mounted in left edge to paper, hinge-mounted in mat.

Roszak met Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in New York in the late 1930s when he was teaching at the Design Laboratory, a WPA sponsored School of Industrial Arts. During this period of the late 1930s, Roszak was simultaneously experimenting with the photogram technique and incorporating elements of the constructions that were preoccupying him at the time. Only after Roszak’s death did knowledge become widespread, of a small but important group of photograms created by the sculptor in the 1930s. He created these unique prints without the aid of a camera- there are no negatives. He instead placed objects directly onto photographic paper and exposed them to light. – A few minimal surface blemishes, more visible at an angle, otherwise a fine tonal print in near excellent condition.

Provenance: Christie's. Light, Volume and Form: Photographs from the Shalom Shpilman Collection, May 24-June 2, 2016, lot 84.