[Mother with Child on Beach]
Beach scenes were Martin Munkácsi’s specialty, and he had an eye for the small dramas and indignities of a day at the shore. Many of his photographs for the German illustrated press show splashed sunbathers and sandy children in states of comedic distress. Here, he disrupts a seaside scene after the fact, by printing it from a shattered negative. Staging this striking intervention in his darkroom, Munkácsi wryly reflects on his own reputation for photographic spontaneity.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Mother with Child on Beach]
- Artist: Martin Munkácsi (American (born Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvar) 1896–1963 New York)
- Date: 1920s
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 23.0 x 18.7 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.233
- Rights and Reproduction: © Joan Munkacsi, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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