| Photography 1938-1955 |
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Circumnavigation of the Blood
~ 4 x 5.5 inches, 1950
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| Prints of this small image were offered by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Christmas sale in the 1950s (see New York Times, Dec. 2, 1951). Sommer used slats for a brief period of time that fit grooves inside his 8x10 inch camera to mask portions of the projected image creating non-standard sizes. He worked in this way to make other images, such as "All Children Are Ambassadors, 1950" where the negative is effectively 5 x 8 inches. "Circumnavigation of the blood is always Circumnavigation of the world," Frederick Sommer: An extemporaneous talk at the Art Institute of Chicago, October, 1970 (published in Aperture 16:2 1971). |
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