The Eventual Fulfillment of a Photograph's Plan to be Recognized
as a Valid Art Form of its Time
Credit: H.W. Immke and Kristin Anderson
Silver contact print from time-damaged glass plate negative
7 x 5 inches
1911 - 2003

The hand-made emulsion has cracked, shrunken, peeled and shifted on its glass base from years of storage in a damp barn. It has taken nearly 100 years for this image to "grow into" the early cubist aesthetic that was emerging during the era in which this photograph was taken. I have not altered the image; I printed the negative in its current state.

Negative is property of the Bureau County Historical Society, H.W. Immke Archive.

Statement about the project

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