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Eve Arnold (1912 – 2012)
Visitor at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1959
Item number 057-01745
An elegant museum visitor with white gloves looks at an old sculpture from the Basque country, enthroned on a high pedestal. Through her glasses, she looks up at the tiny man with his ample belly, as if they were in a kind of duel, both equally unimpressed.
Eve Arnold, who had already been accepted into the legendary Magnum agency in 1954, succeeded in taking a snapshot at the decisive moment. It shows a relationship between past and present, inanimate art object and attentive viewer; it thus refers to the role of the museum as a place of lively debate.
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Gelatin silver print, print date: 1989
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Image dimensions 37,7 x 55,5 cm (37,7 x 55,5 inch)
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Object dimensions 50,7 x 60,5 cm (50,7 x 60,5 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 60 x 80 cm, frame upon request
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Condition
Double-weight semi-matte baryta paper, in excellent condition -
Annotations
Magnum’s exhibition blindstamp in the margin lower right, Magnum’s Copyright stamp with facsimile signature on the reverse -
Literature
W. Manchester (ed.), In our Time. The world as seen by Magnum photographers, London 1989, p. 371 -
Prints / Magnum / Magnum / Museum / Kunst /