Front / Recto
- Title Co-op: 1926/III (Construction)
- Negative Date 1926
- Print Date 1926–55
- Medium Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions Image 7 1/16 × 9 7/16" (18 × 23.9 cm)Mount 11 5/8 × 16 1/2" (29.6 × 41.9 cm)
- Place Taken Basel
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Howard Stein
- MoMA Accession Number 1784.2001
- Copyright © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Back / Verso
- Mount Type Mount (original)
- Marks and Inscriptions White label affixed to mount verso, top left, with text printed in black ink: Foto Hannes Meyer/Co-op. Construction/1926/3 [oriented upside down with respect to image]. Stamped in black ink on sheet verso, top left: Léna Meyer-Bergner/Neuweilerstrasse 93/4054 Basel–Suisse [oriented upside down with respect to image]. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, top center: PF 25464 [oriented upside down with respect to image].
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Provenance
The artist, Basel; to the Meyer estate (Léna Meyer-Bergner), Basel [1]; purchased by Egidio Marzona, Berlin/Bielefeld, 1975–76 [2]; purchased by Prakapas Gallery, Bronxville, N.Y. [3]. Allan Frumkin Gallery Photographs Inc. (Carol Ehlers), Chicago [4]; purchased by Thomas Walther; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] Egidio Marzona, conversation with Simon Bieling, Berlin, August 2005; and Marzona, conversation with Thomas Walther, Berlin, April 2014.
[2] Marzona, conversation with Walther.
[3] Ibid.
[4] MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 24; Carol Ehlers, e-mail to Bieling, April 19, 2005; and Ehlers, letter to Audrey Sands, October 18, 2013. Ehlers has no records or memory of her source or exactly when she sold it to Thomas Walther.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Matte
- Techniques Mount Retouching (additive) Coating
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PTM
Detail view of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA -
Micro-raking
Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA
Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA
Paper Material
- Format Metric
- UV Fluorescence Recto negative Verso no data
- Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
- Material Techniques Developing-out paper
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XRF
This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.
The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):
- Recto: S, Cl, Ca, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
- Mount: Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ba, Pb
The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).
Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
Elements identified: Al, Si, S, Cl, K, Ca, Ag, Ba
Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
Elements identified: Fe, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Pb
In Context
Related Images
Hannes Meyer. Fotoconstruction Co-op: 1926/II (Photo-construction co-op: 1926/II). Reproduced in Ernst Kállai. “Malerei und Photographie” (Painting and photography). International Review i 10 4. 1927. © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Hannes Meyer. Fotoconstruction Co-op: 1926/I (Photo-construction co-op: 1926/I). Reproduced in International Review i 10 6. 1927. © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
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