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Charles I. Berg — Weeping Magdalen, No. 5 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150

Charles I. Berg

Weeping Magdalen, No. 5 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150

1897

Part of an influential portfolio that helped establish photography as fine art in America, this photogravure demonstrates Berg's mastery of painterly effects through photographic means. The work exemplifies the Pictorialist movement's aesthetic ambitions.

Medium
Photogravure

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Charles I. Berg, Weeping Magdalen, No. 5 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150, 1897

Part of an influential portfolio that helped establish photography as fine art in America, this photogravure demonstrates Berg's mastery of painterly effects through photographic means. The work exemplifies the Pictorialist movement's aesthetic ambitions.

Medium
Photogravure
Year
1897
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Monochrome, American, Melancholic, Religious, Portrait, Photogravure, Figurative

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