Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a photographic by Brenda Putnam, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a small statue. A chubby, winged child stands on a twisted column, holding a scroll in one hand and a staff in the other. Below the column, a turtle peeks out from the base, adding a strange touch. The photo’s grainy look makes the details feel old, even though the statue itself looks carefully made. The child’s pose is playful, but the turtle adds a quiet oddity. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of their sculpture collection.
A photograph is mounted on a green card as part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Kineton Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture, gathered these photographs in the 1920s by sending questionnaires to sculptors, whose responses are now held in the Archive of Art and Design.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Brenda Putnam spent decades running a camera with one hand and a light meter with the other, snapping the same quiet Boston street at dawn for decades.
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