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Militaria, including armor, morions, gauntlets, a halberd, single and double handed swords, a crossbow with crannequin, a musket, a horseman's hammer, a spear, horse harness, stirrups and spurs.Elegantly and unusually lit, the series resembles more modernist works like the Glass in Light study by Alexander Rodtschenko than the more simplistic William Henry Fox Talbot studies of glass and china. They have been compared to both. Often overlapping patterns of glass and other items, Belitski plays with spatial relationships.Silber and Salz, the landmark book on early German photography, devotes an entire chapter to Belitski's work (pp.542-547). There are also descriptions in the Truthful Lens and A Higher Branch of Art. See: Dewitz, Silber and Salz, p.539.Plate numbers in ink on the mount. His blindstamp is on the image.Provenance: Alexander von Minutoli, a Prussian civil servant and collector, who established the Minutolisches Institute in Liegnitz to encourage an appreciation for decorative arts. Provenance: Marc and Brigitte Pagneux collection; Pierre Berge.

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Militaria Including Armor
Ludwig Belitski Militaria Including Armor

Price $7,500

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Description

Ref.# 14963

Medium Salt print from wet plate negative

Mount on original mount

Photo Date 1854  Print Date 1854

Dimensions 9-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. (241 x 216 mm)

Photo Country Germany

Photographer Country Germany

Contact

Alex Novak and Marthe Smith

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Company
Contemporary Works / Vintage Works, Ltd.



 

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