Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a photographic by Josef Enseling, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a stone sculpture. A man is crouched on a low block, his arms stretched back behind him. His head is tilted up, like he’s looking at something above. The surface of the stone is rough, showing the weight of his muscles and the folds of his skin. The photo was taken in a way that makes the figure stand out sharply against the dark background. The lighting highlights his body but leaves his face mostly in shadow. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this sculpture in person.
A photograph is mounted on a green card. The image was part of a collection bequeathed in 1938 by William Kineton Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture. Kineton Parkes distributed questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, and this photograph was one of several responses he received. The photograph and related materials are now held in the Archive of Art and Design.
Read the full account in the museum source.
We don’t know much about Josef Enseling—no birth date, no biography, just quiet black-and-white photos that feel like private thoughts made visible.
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