[Nude in Tub]

Franz Roh German

Not on view

Disorienting perspectives and darkroom experimentation followed the physical and emotional devastation of World War I. In this work, by means of reverse printing (which makes the photograph read as a negative) and an overhead viewpoint, Roh transformed the huddled bather into an ambiguous figure—perhaps prisoner, perhaps daredevil, perhaps both.

[Nude in Tub], Franz Roh (German, 1890–1965), Gelatin silver print

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