Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a photographic by Kornél Sámuel, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a small sculpture. It shows a nude man standing on a flat base, his left hand resting on his hip and his right arm bent at the elbow. The figure’s head is smooth, almost like a blank mask, and the body looks solid but simple. The photo itself is grainy, like an old print, and the lighting is flat—no strong shadows. The sculpture’s pose is calm, with no dramatic action. If you like this kind of quiet figure work, look up Sámuel, Kornél.
A photograph is mounted on a green card in this work by Kornél Sámuel. The image is part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938, who was known for his expertise in sculpture. Parkes distributed questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, and this photograph was one of many submissions he received in response. The photograph is now held among the holdings of the Archive of Art and Design.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Kornél Sámuel kept a tin box of black-and-white photographs under his bed—snapshots of Budapest’s alleys and workers he shot on his way home from his day job at the post office.
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