id: 157204 accession number: 1993.89 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.89 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:18.156000 Villa Lobos Series, Los Angeles, 1953. Val Telberg (American, 1910–1995). Gelatin silver print with graphite, solarized, from multiple negatives; image: 35.3 x 28 cm (13 7/8 x 11 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lilyan and Toby Miller 1993.89 © Estate of Val Telberg, Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery title: Villa Lobos Series, Los Angeles title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1953 creation date earliest: 1953 creation date latest: 1953 current location: creditline: Gift of Lilyan and Toby Miller copyright: © Estate of Val Telberg, Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print with graphite, solarized, from multiple negatives department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Val Telberg (American, 1910–1995) - artist Val Telberg (Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim) American, b. Russia, 1910-1995 Born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim in Moscow, Val Telberg was an experimental photographer known for his innovative use of photomontage. After the Russian Revolution his family left the country to live in China, Japan, and Korea. In 1928 Telberg came to the United States to attend Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. He majored in chemistry, graduating in 1932, then returned to China to pursue a business career. After the invasion of China by Japan in 1938, Telberg moved to New York City. In 1942 he began studying painting at the Art Students League, where he became interested in surrealism and experimental filmmaking. He also developed an interest in photography through several jobs he held, including one that required quickly developing and printing pictures of nightclub patrons and another that involved photographing people with cutout props. In 1945 Telberg bought an enlarger and began combining multiple negatives to make one print. Three years later he exhibited a group of these experimental photomontages at the Brooklyn Museum. Telberg continued his experimentation and in 1951, while living in Europe, worked with 16-mm film montage at Oxford University. During the late 1950s he collaborated with writer Anaïs Nin on one of his best known projects, a series of photomontages illustrating Nin's House of Incest. In the 1960s Telberg began to work with large-scale, multiple-image photographs. As in his earlier work, he sought to create complex images that related to his own thoughts, feelings, memories, and fantasies. In 1968 Telberg moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, and began making sculpture. He also collaborated with his wife, dancer Lelia Katayen, on multimedia productions. He returned to photography in 1978, and in 1983 his photographs were featured in a one-person exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 35.3 x 28 cm (13 7/8 x 11 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "c"; "Villa Lobos Series/Los Angeles 1953 / Val Telberg [signed]"; "850" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs opening date: 1994-09-13T04:00:00 Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-November 27, 1994). title: Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter opening date: 2019-02-10T05:00:00 Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 356 url: --- IMAGES