At its most vivid, a photograph transports viewers into a real-world moment, such as Louis Faurer’s eye-to-eye meeting with skeptical twins on Fifth Avenue. But the artist’s heavily annotated working proof is a reminder that photographic prints, like other works of visual art, are products of patient trial and error.
Louis Faurer (American, 1916–2001): Fifth Avenue, New York, 1948. Working proof: grease pencil on gelatin silver print, before 1981. Gift of Chuck Kelton, 2017.304.
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