Gelatin silver print. "[...] in 1930 he made his best-known film, the abstract 'Light play, black and white and grey,' based on his own machine-powered mobile, the Light Prop." (excerpt, p.[183])
"Man Ray's most famous photograph, Le Violon d'Ingres, combines Dada wordplay with Surrealist imagery. The nude recalls the odalisques of Ingres, while the title refers to Ingres's hobby - playing the violin (which led to the French phrase...
Ranard, John--Exhibitions; Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions; Museum exhibits
This thesis project documents the curatorial and archival work completed using the collection of photographs, negatives, and ephemeral materials of John Ranard. This collection belongs to his estate and is currently housed at the University of...
Three men break hemp on a rolling field of hemp and craggy trees, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Two men operate hand brakes and the man in center holds aloft a mass of hemp dangling to the ground like a large blanket. A shack and outhouse...
Outside a wooden house with one and two story sections, a horse and buggy is parked and another horse grazes beside a tree. A woman and two children or--possibly--seated adults sit on the porch, and a man leans on the outside of a four board fence...
Four many-passengered canoes float low in the water on a placid lake glinting in the sun; one woman holds a parasol and some passengers wear hats. Part of a rocky shore is visible in the photograph's lower right corner. The backdrop of the lake is...
Two women (one of whom is African American) and two men stand spaced apart in front of a substantial two story stone and brick house, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Several outbuildings surround the building, along with a number of large,...
A man and two women pose at the center of the photograph, having climbed a good way up a vertical cliff of rock strata and occasional patches of weeds.
Over a dozen men and women lounge in four clumps on the large rocks surrounding a placid, unevenly shaped river which at the front of the photograph widens and branches around a boulder. Some rowboats are parked on either side of the water. The...
A placid river cuts diagonally across the left part of the photograph, with large bare trees growing close to the river and leaning inward on either side of the river. A fence also edges the left bank, and at a greater distance on the right is a...
