id:			165553
accession number:	2007.29
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.29
updated:		2023-08-24 00:20:13.588000

The Film, 1930. Herman Bekman (German, b. 1906). Gelatin silver print; image: 29.8 x 23.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.29

title:				The Film
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creation date:			1930
creation date earliest:		1930
creation date latest:		1930
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands or Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Herman Bekman (German, b. 1906)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 29.8 x 23.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "8 stuk" and "BOVEA"
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	inscription:	Black stamp on verso of print: "ATELIER BEKMANI Fotografie-Fotohandel/Heutszingel 19/Coevorden"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Sep. 15, 2001, no. 35)
	date: September 15, 2001
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2007
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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wall description:
Bekman was a professional photographer who shot everything from advertising images, nature scenes, and portraits to fine art images. Here he transforms one of the mundane tools of his trade—the metal reel and celluloid guide strip from a developing tank for 35 mm roll film—into a dramatic abstraction. References to the nature or practice of photography are a common motif in work of this era.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
	page number: 	cat. no. 93, p. 140.
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