Rita Gam

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Rita Gam
Rita Gam
Artist/Maker (American, born Latvia, 1906 - 1979)
DatePublished September 15, 1952
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsComposition: 15 3/16 × 11 15/16 in. (38.5 × 30.3 cm) Sheet: 19 in. × 15 1/4 in. (48.2 × 38.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Michael Scott, Class of 1981
Object number2010.5
Not on view
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Additional Details

Exhibition History 2012
Clinton, NY. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. Object Study Gallery, October 6, 2012 - (no catalog).
Provenance 2010: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Michael Scott
?: auctioned at Christie's
Markings Stamp: "COPYRIGHT / © BY / PHILIPPE HALSMAN" on verso at center.
Signature No signature noted.
Inscribed No inscriptions noted.
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Girl sticking her tongue out
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Uniformed man walking past priest
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Girl under the Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge
Girl under the Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge
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Date: 1980
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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The parish priest Ramonet: "I left for the Ile de Sein with a book on Gurdjieff that was supposed to get me back into shape. I barely looked at it. Thanks to Felix Guilcher, a real, lyrical and discreet hero, a rare friend discovered over there, to a Parish Priest, and to all the islanders, more islander than Breton, I soon felt quite at home, something quite unexpected, indeed inconceivable. Happy and calm, I was protected from the distant continent by a superb and pitiless sea. On Sein, I finally told myself "they'll never get me!". I'll never be able to repay my debt to the Sein Islanders for what they gave me
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Date: 1956
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.197
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
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Date: 1954
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.198
Miss Rita Renoir thinks that striptease gets its effect on the viewer, as it is done with mind and feeling, more than with the body. To demonstrate this theory, Rita Renoir performed for us a "striptease of the face", from the series "Strip-Tease".
Miss Rita Renoir thinks that striptease gets its effect on the viewer, as it is done with mind and feeling, more than with the body. To demonstrate this theory, Rita Renoir performed for us a "striptease of the face", from the series "Strip-Tease".
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Photograph by John Bentham.
Carrizo y Tele (Reed and Television)
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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