9-96-3 Head of a beetle, 40x

9-96-3 Head of a beetle, 40xArtwork Info About the Artist Artist Docs 1996 Gelatin silver print From the series "Imago" Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, au verso Printed in 1996 Edition of 8 + 3 APs (#3 8) Unframed For more than thirty years, Claudia Fahrenkemper (b. Castrop Rauxel, Germany, 1959) has used photography to explore the strange beauty of man made or natural objects by isolating them in some way from their environment. She studied under Bernd and

His eye was unique

Born in Boston and eventually becoming a British citizen

he would often present images out of their sequence so that the final image was a believable rendering of motion

She was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to photograph the Rockies in 1914 and spent several months in Western Canada

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

and the majority of his negatives were later destroyed by fire

In my long-term photographic series

and Ruined Rainbow

and the National Portrait Gallery

During World War I

Université de Montréal

Barrie Wentzell