[Two photographs of the Variable Controllable Distortograph]
Artwork Details
- Title: [Two photographs of the Variable Controllable Distortograph]
- Artist: Herbert George Ponting (British, Salisbury, Wiltshire 1870–1935 London)
- Date: 1927
- Medium: Gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions: Images: approximately 11 x 16 cm (4 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.210a, b
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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