Balzac - Towards the Light, Midnight, Meudon, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 34/35, April-July 1911" / Edward Jean Steichen

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Accession Number: 2012/1.217
Title: Balzac - Towards the Light, Midnight, Meudon, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 34/35, April-July 1911"
Artist: Edward Jean Steichen
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: American, born Luxembourg, 1879-1973
Medium and Support: photogravure on paper
Object Creation Date: 1908; printed 1911
Credit Line: Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider
Dimensions: 20.96 cm x 29.85 cm (8 1/4 in. x 11 3/4 in.)
Physical Description: A photograph of a figure dressed in draped clothing facing the left, towards a lone light source in the midst of a dark night.
Primary Keywords: lightning; night
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; earth sciences concepts; people and culture; physical sciences concepts; scientific concepts; weather and related phenomena; weather-related phenomena
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1368 x 1120
File Size: 222 KB
Record: 2012/1.217
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-1.217/2012_1_217.tif

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Full citation: "Balzac - Towards the Light, Midnight, Meudon, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 34/35, April-July 1911"; Edward Jean Steichen." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-1.217/2012_1_217.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.