Self-Portrait
Catalogue
- Year
- 1998
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.6 × 33.7 cm (8 9/16 × 13 5/16 in.); 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Arnold Newman
Artist
Photography
Arnold Newman was an American photographer renowned for his environmental portraits of cultural and political figures, developing a distinctive approach that situated subjects within spaces reflecting their work and character. Working primarily in black and white from the 1940s onward, he pioneered a compositional method that integrated architecture, objects, and spatial relationships as equal elements to the human face. His portraits of artists, scientists, and statesmen established portraiture as a serious documentary form in postwar American photography. Newman's technical mastery of available light and geometric composition influenced generations of editorial and fine art photographers.
Full artist profile →More
More by Arnold Newman
Andrew Wyeth
1994 · Gelatin silver print
Sebastiao Salgado
1991 · Gelatin silver print
Twyla Tharp
1987 · Gelatin silver print
Akira Kurosawa, New York City
1981 · Gelatin silver print
Henry Moore
1977 · Gelatin silver print
Henry Miller
1976 · Gelatin silver print
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Arnold Newman
- Year
- 1998
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.6 × 33.7 cm (8 9/16 × 13 5/16 in.); 27.8 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1998-093002
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified