The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 7, 2026

A horizontally oriented inkjet print captures the semi-transparent, mechanical profile of a bellows camera. A translucent, zigzag bellows stretches across the center, connecting a rectangular rear frame to a complex lens assembly. Intersecting dark silhouettes of gears and screws contrast with gradients of gray and ghostly white outlines. This X-ray-like composition reveals the machine's internal geometry, featuring vertical frames and horizontal rails that appear as overlapping structural layers.

Gundlach Korona 5 x 7

2016–17

Kent Krugh

(American, b. 1955)
America
inkjet print
Gift of the Artist 2019.304
© Kent Krugh
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Produced around 1910, this view camera is very similar to the machines used to take the earliest photographs and resembles those still used today for large-format film photography.

Description

Kent Krugh uses x-ray technology to allow us to see inside the Gundlach Korona. In a view camera, the lens forms an inverted image on a ground glass focusing screen, which is replaced with a sheet of film to take the picture. A feature of the apparatus emphasized in this view is the bellows, which expands or contracts as the distance between the lens and film holder is altered, which changes focus, depth of field, and perspective.
  • Kent Krugh (the artist)
    December 2, 2019
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kent Krugh, Speciation: Still a Camera, Albuquerque NM: Fraction Editions, 2018, with text by A.D. Coleman and Barbara Tannenbaum.
  • {{cite web|title=Gundlach Korona 5 x 7|url=false|author=Kent Krugh|year=2016–17|access-date=07 June 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.304