Collection Online as of January 31, 2023
1949
Gelatin silver print, photogram
Image: 35.4 x 29.7 cm (13 15/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.41
© Joseph Breitenbach Trust
Description To transform a humble dandelion stem into a dazzling fireworks display, Breitenbach employed his imagination and a camera-less technique—the photogram.
Inscriptions
Inscription Written in pencil on verso of print: "150 Fire Works/FEUERWERK P 18/Imperato"
Provenance 2007
David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 51, p. 87
Breitenbach, Josef. Die Sammlung Josef Breitenbach zur Geschichte der Photographie: eine Ausstellung im Fotomuseum des Münchner Stadtmuseums vom 20. Juli 1979 bis 9. September 1979. München: Das Stadtmuseum, 1979. p. 150
Holborn, Mark, and Josef Breitenbach. Josef Breitenbach, Photographer. New York: Temple Rock Co, 1986. p. 23
Exhibition history
Die Sammlung Josef Breitenbach: Zur Geschichte der Photographie . Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum (July 20-September 9, 1979).
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
