Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a photographic by Elias Ilkka, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a carved stone relief. A hunched figure sits on the ground, head resting on one hand, looking down. The carving is set into a tall, rectangular stone block outside a plain wooden building with small windows. The text on the relief is in Finnish, but the figure’s pose is simple and natural. The photo itself looks old, with a date stamp in the corner reading "4258-1938." Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A photograph is mounted on a green card, part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Kineton Parkes, known for his work on sculpture, gathered photographs by sending questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, and this image is one of those submissions.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Elias Ilkka kept a small camera in his coat pocket and shot whenever something made him pause—rain on cobblestones, a stranger’s sideways glance, the way light sliced through a half-open door.
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