About this artwork
At first, I took pictures all over of the things that everybody photographs. I liked them, but I still had the feeling that they were not quite my own … But I want photographs to be mine, I want to feel that I am the one who saw them. I think that’s why I went into the kind of photography I did, because I had this intense desire to create with light.
—Carlotta Corpron, 1980
Carlotta Corpron experimented with light as the primary subject of her photographs, considering herself a “designer with light.” Here the artist photographed a bright light shining through the rippled surface of a glass brick. Although she received little recognition for her work during her lifetime, her experiments were celebrated here at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had a solo exhibition 70 years ago.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Carlotta Corpron
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Title
- Woven Light— Glass Brick
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1940–1950
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image, sight: 32.3 × 26.4 cm (12 3/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Publicity Department Photography Sundry Account
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Reference Number
- 1953.379
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