Turning to Look
This tiny image is a contact print from a negative exposed in a Rolleiflex camera. It portrays a fashion model whom the photographer dated in San Francisco. Neither fact explains the haunting effect of the image as well as Andre Breton's words (concerning Man Ray): "It needed the eye of a great hunter, the patience, the sense of the moment pathetically right when a balance, transient besides, occurred in the expression of a face, between dream and action."
Artwork Details
- Title: Turning to Look
- Artist: John Gutmann (American (born Germany), Breslau 1905–1998 San Francisco, California)
- Date: 1935
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 5.8 x 5.4 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.108
- Rights and Reproduction: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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