Original Vintage gelatin silver print by Ethel Virga - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Photograph

"Me" [installation with mask and chair], 1970 [IN 040] vintage gelatin silver print 14 x 11" (35.56 x 27.94 cm) signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso Condition:  Pristine All works selling from personal photographer archive. Authenticity guaranteed. All prints are original, made personally by artist in the period from 1970 to 1980. She wasn't a portraitist, while she was taking a very interesting portraits; she wasn't a street photographer, while of course she couldn't resist from shooting at New York streets. But she was mostly a story teller. Making lot of installation. Every time, when she took a camera, she started to create her own story. She almost never take a single pictures, most of photographs were in sequence, showing some form of transition or transformation. Pretty often people at her work are absent, but her photographs capture the remnants of their existence: the books, the furniture, the dishes. They are beautifully composed, lyrical still lifes, in which eccentricities are lovingly noted. Her images reflect her feelings and memories about certain places and times. She examines everything around her, and when something catches her eye, she reflects on it, and transforms it into an image. Her pictures are often partial re-stagings of something she observed. She also experimented a lot with printing, combine the images into collage, using few enlargers, implicating one image inside the other. Ethel Virga, New York Photographer and artist. Born in Brooklyn in 1921. Graduated from Cooper Union Art School. She painted and drew, made metal wire sculptures and large fabric appliqués. She made store window displays for Abraham&Straus and Bergdorf Goodman. And then she discovered photography... She set up her own darkroom, did her own developing and printing. Her archive covers twenty years of photography and consists of thousands of original black and white gelatin silver prints, contact sheets and negatives. In the seventies and eighties she had numerous solo and group shows. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including The New York Times, and "Le Nouveau Photocinema" Paris. Some of her works are kept in the archive of New York Public Library. All credits and more artwork at ethelvirga.com

Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:11 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in

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