Self-Portrait
1998 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.6 × 33.7 cm (8 9/16 × 13 5/16 in.); 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Arnold Newman
1918
New York, NY, USA
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19
Institutional Exhibitions
91
Works in Collection
140
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Picturing "Greatness"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Mondrian: New York Studio Compositions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Portrait Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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The Photo Essay
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Arnold Newman was an American photographer renowned for his environmental portraits of cultural and political figures, developing a distinctive approach that situated subjects within spaces reflecting their work and character. Working primarily in black and white from the 1940s onward, he pioneered a compositional method that integrated architecture, objects, and spatial relationships as equal elements to the human face. His portraits of artists, scientists, and statesmen established portraiture as a serious documentary form in postwar American photography. Newman's technical mastery of available light and geometric composition influenced generations of editorial and fine art photographers.
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