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"tombstone": "Mannequin, c. 1928. El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890\u20131941). Gelatin silver print from a photogram negative; image: 29.4 x 23.5 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.); paper: 29.5 x 25.6 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2007.147. \u00a9 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"inscription": "written in pencil on verso: \"166 (in a circle)/ artist's printing notes\"",
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"inscription": "Notations on verso of print, initaled by Sophie Lissitsky-K\u00fcppers",
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"description": "A figure peers through a magnifying glass at a negative of an image of Paris taken by Lissitzky in 1928. The artist\u2019s interest in the photogram and negative images may relate to his experience of being X-rayed for tuberculosis in 1924. Later that decade, Lissitzky experimented extensively with positive and negative versions of photograms. A photogram provides a negative image of the objects placed on the sensitized paper. Using the photogram as a negative creates a positive print. Printing a mix of positive and negative images on the same sheet of paper allowed Lissitzky to add a sense of three dimensionality to the silhouettes.",
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"citation": "Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, State Tret\u02b9iakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum, 1992.",
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E., \"Photo Surrealism\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 3, March 2008",
"page_number": "8Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-03/page/8/"
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