The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Richard Avedon, New York

Richard Avedon, New York

1985
(American, 1917–2009)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 25.7 x 19.7 cm (10 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
Gift from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2020.30
© The Irving Penn Foundation
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The contact sheet is a twentieth-century phenomenon.

Description

The contact sheet—a piece of photographic paper which contains positive prints of some or all of the negatives on a roll of film—was necessitated by the advent of roll film, which produced small negatives, and rendered obsolete with the advent of digital photography. Having access to a photographer’s contact reveals the artists’ thoughts and working processes.
  • Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz, Cleveland, OH
    March 2, 2020
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 100-101, no. 14
  • PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-November 29, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Richard Avedon, New York|url=false|author=Irving Penn|year=1985|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.30