T. Lux Feininger

Presentation of Heads (Five small wood sculptures by T. Lux Feininger)

Präsentation von Köpfen (Fünf kleine Skulpturen von T. Lux Feininger in Holz), deren eine am unsichtbarem Faden Kopf nach unten aufgehängt)

Repro: MAIN

1925, in Weimar
Negative untracable
Prints known:
1. Private collection, gelatin silver print, ("Gas light print) 129 x 89 mm. Verso inscr. possibly by Julia Feininger: are these your work?
TLF: "In the winter of 1925 ... I had been engaged in building or "tinkering" with small objects and came across ... an old box-camera. I wanted to photograph my "small objects," that is, to take close-up pictures indoors in ordinary daylight. Since I didn't even have a tripod and the box-camera was really somewhat primitive, there were certain difficulties to overcome. [...] I still printed my very first negatives in a copy frame in the sunshine, but soon (even before the family left Weimar to move to Dessau in summer 1926) I followed the advice given to me to make "gaslight copies" (as the developing papers were then commonly called).".* [207]

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