Wulz, a portrait photographer loosely associated with the Italian Futurist movement, created this striking composite by printing two negatives—one of her face, the other of the family cat—on a single sheet of photographic paper, evoking by technical means the seamless conflation of identities that occurs so effortlessly in the world of dreams.
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Dimensions:Image: 11 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (29.4 × 23.2 cm) Mount: 13 3/16 × 10 1/4 in. (33.5 × 26 cm) Mat: 22 in. × 19 1/4 in. (55.9 × 48.9 cm) Frame: 62.9 × 55.6 cm (24 3/4 × 21 7/8 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:1987.1100.123
Inscription: Signed and inscribed in pencil on print, recto LR: "W. Wulz // Trieste"; signed and inscribed on mount, verso LC: "Wanda Wulz // Io + gatto"; inscribed in ink on mount, verso LR: "Trieste Corso Italia 9"
Collection of Giovanni Lista, Italy; (sold, Sotheby's, New York, Italian Futurist Photographs Sale, November 9, 1982, Lot no. 72); John C. Waddell, New York
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Akron Art Museum. "A History of Women Photographers," September 6, 1997–November 2, 1997.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Ghosts in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul 1850-2000," October 24, 1999–January 16, 2000.
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Milwaukee Art Museum. "Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945," February 9, 2008–May 4, 2008.
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," October 10, 2012–January 27, 2013.
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Brassaï (French (born Romania), Brașov 1899–1984 Côte d'Azur)
ca. 1932, printed mid-1960s
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