Ralph Steiner
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1899 - 1986, Hanover, New Hampshire)
Self Portrait with Korona
1929 (printed 1979)
Gelatin silver print
9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24.4 x 19.3 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Therese and Murray Weiss
2011.150
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This self-portrait, taken in 1929; Steiner describes as his "Sylph Portrait". "My hugging my camera says clearly (but differently from Decartes): 'I photograph; therefore I am, ' " wrote Steiner. "I would have been a mess my whole lifelong had I not been blessed by my ability to use my camera to speak for me."
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Gelatin Silver
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