Untitled (A Laborer Ascending the Stairs)
Artist:
Manuel Carrillo
(Mexican, 1906 - 1989)
Date: date unknown (active 1955-1989)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Fund for the acquisition of Modern Latin American Art
Object number: 2009.9.2
Copyright: © Estate of Manuel Carrillo
Inscribed: Signed recto.
Numbered and stamped on print verso:
Label Text
“I think the hardest thing in photography is the eye—to see the photograph at the right moment . . . the composition, I think it the most personal thing an artist has.”
—Manuel Carrillo
The construction worker here is framed perfectly within the triangle of the foreground. This is no accident. Manuel Carrillo intentionally composed the image to highlight the geometry and strong diagonals. The stairs, up which the man lugs a bag of concrete mix, and the floor above him are juxtaposed against the finished walls and the bright light shining through what appears to be an oculus in the ceiling.
(Erin Murphy, 2017)
—Manuel Carrillo
The construction worker here is framed perfectly within the triangle of the foreground. This is no accident. Manuel Carrillo intentionally composed the image to highlight the geometry and strong diagonals. The stairs, up which the man lugs a bag of concrete mix, and the floor above him are juxtaposed against the finished walls and the bright light shining through what appears to be an oculus in the ceiling.
(Erin Murphy, 2017)
Not on view
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