Snake in Bucket
Imogen Cunningham captures a snake coiled in a bucket in this gelatin silver print, demonstrating her interest in natural forms and close observation. The work reflects her exploration of organic shapes and textures.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 9, 2024
Lot 78
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Artists in conversation
Edward Weston
American · b. 1886
Weston similarly used gelatin silver prints to capture natural forms with extreme precision and close observation, producing modernist studies of organic subjects like shells, vegetables, and animals that emphasize texture and sculptural form.
Karl Blossfeldt
German · b. 1865
Blossfeldt devoted his photographic practice to close up studies of natural organisms, revealing intricate textures and structural forms in a stark, modernist style that closely parallels Cunningham's analytical approach to organic subjects.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
German · b. 1897
Renger-Patzsch worked in the New Objectivity tradition, creating sharply focused gelatin silver prints that examined natural forms including plants and animals with a cool, precise attention to surface texture and organic geometry.
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