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Will Connell American
1937
Not on view
In 1938 Connell, an advertising photographer and teacher at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, published In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire, a book of forty-eight photographs that used Surrealist fantasy and photomontage to lampoon the Hollywood studio system. The book offers up a vivid assortment of Tinseltown types: the cigar-chomping producer, the pushy stage mother, and this scantily clad starlet besieged by a horde of colossal sensation-seeking cameras.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Find
  • Artist: Will Connell (American, MacPherson, Kansas 1898–1961 Los Angeles?)
  • Date: 1937
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 42 x 34.2 cm (16 9/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
    Mount: 42.8 x 35 cm (16 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
    Frame: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.212
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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