Untitled
The multimedia German artist and designer studied photography and design at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne from 1942-1944. After the war, he began to explore abstraction in photography with photograms and montages and became associated with the German “Subjektive Fotografie” movement, which pushed against the dominant strains of documentary and journalistic photography in favor of a more expressionistic, inward impulse. This "chemigram" is part of a body of cameraless work that solely utilizes photographic paper, developer, and fixer. The resulting chemical prints, each one unique, are hybrids of painting, photography, and drawing.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Chargesheimer (German, 1924–1971)
- Date: 1950s
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 23 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (59.7 × 49.5 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (59.7 × 49.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.10
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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