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The Spiral
The Spiral
1935
Carl Strüwe
(German, 1898-1988)
Gelatin silver print, micrograph, ferrotyped
Image: 18 x 22.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
John L. Severance Fund 2007.126
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An interest in botanical forms led Strüwe, an artist and graphic designer, to begin making photomicrographs—photographs taken through a microscope. The elegant spiral is the highly magnified proboscis of a butterfly.
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