Throat of an Orchid (Rachen einer Orchidee)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1922
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.7 × 16.8 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 23.2 × 17.2 cm (9 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Albert Renger-Patzsch
Artist
Photography
Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer who pioneered New Objectivity through meticulously composed black and white studies of industrial structures, plants, and everyday objects. His systematic approach transformed mundane subjects into formal investigations of texture, pattern, and light, elevating commercial and documentary photography to high art through rigorous framing and tonal control. Working from Würzburg, his method of visual cataloguing shaped photography and design practice across early twentieth-century Europe.
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Record
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- Albert Renger-Patzsch
- Year
- 1922
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.7 × 16.8 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 23.2 × 17.2 cm (9 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1922-140225
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified