Metamorphosis 527, from the series: Metamorphosis Through Light, Helmar Lerski
Helmar Lerski
Metamorphosis 527, from the series: Metamorphosis Through Light
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Helmar Lerski

Metamorphosis 527, from the series: Metamorphosis Through Light, 1936


Blatt
29 x 23.1 cm
Passepartout
60 x 50 cm
Physical Description
Silver Gelatin Print on baryta paper
Inventory Number
St.F.3354
Acquisition
Acquired in 2015 as a gift from the Galerie Kicken Berlin
Status
Not on display

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Helmar Lerski photographed the face of the construction engineer Leo Uschatz in a series of 140 closeups. Working in the blazing sun on a roof terrace in Tel Aviv, he achieved his dramaturgical lighting effects with up to sixteen mirrors and flags that helped him vary the intensity of the shadows. Having fled the National Socialists, the photographer and cameraman thus continued the studies in portrait photography he had begun in Berlin. He had already published his photo book Everyday Heads, containing closeup shots of anonymous persons, in 1931. Presented as impenetrable surfaces of mask-like rigidity, their faces speak of the conflict between emotionality and ideality.

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15.11.2024