Light Abstraction

1931
Quigley, Edward

Object Details

TITLE:
Light Abstraction
DATE:
1931
MEDIUM:
Gelatin silver print
DIMENSIONS:
13 ¾" x 10 ½"
CREDIT LINE:
Purchased with funds provided by The Judith Rothschild Foundation, 2003

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Description

Quigley used light to create photographic abstraction, working with a prism to photograph light as if it were a solid form. His Light Abstraction series was first exhibited in 1932 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. In 1934 his work was included in a group exhibition at the Cleveland Museum alongside art by some of the most important modernist photographers of the time—Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. 

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