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Preview image of work. gelatin silver print,  Nude Solarization 10521

1989.67

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Nude Solarization

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Artist

Maurice Tabard (Lyon, France, 1897 - 1984, Paris, France)

Title

Nude Solarization

Creation Date

1936

Century

20th century

Dimensions

6 7/8 in. x 4 7/8 in. (17.5 cm. x 12.4 cm.)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Europe, France

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

1989.67

Maurice Tabard’s Nude Solarization crops out the model’s head, arms, and legs, stripping her identity but focusing on her torso in a way that recalls classical sculpture. Its simplicity is made strange by the solarization effect: a partial reversal of light and dark and a haloing around the figure, achieved by briefly turning on a light in the darkroom as a photograph is being developed. Like photograms, solarization was “discovered” by accident and then explored by photographers Man Ray and Lee Miller. Tabard conducted his own experiments with the technique, publishing an article on it in 1933.