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Barbara Morgan
Martha Graham Letter to the World (The Kick), 1940
Gelatin silver print, probably printed in the 1960s.
Image size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Paper size: 11 x 14 inches
Frame size: 16 x 20 inches
inscribed verso "Rough proof for size"
Most likely created as a proof for Aperture Magazine 11:1, edited by Minor White, published in 1964, this image appears on page 15.
Framed and matted in a welded steel frame created by Bark Frameworks. New York.
ConditionInscription faded, wear to edges and handling creases, most significant crease in image upper left running the full width of the photograph and area of brown discoloration in the dress lower right measuring approximately 2-3 inches in diameter. See images for full condition details.
Literature
Minor White, ed., Aperture 11:1 (1964), p. 15
Aperture, Masters of Photography: Barbara Morgan, illustrated on the cover.
Curtis L. Carter, Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors & Photographs (Milwaukee: Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, 1988), p. 105 and back cover
Quentin Bajac et al., eds., Photography at MoMA: 1920-1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), p. 273
High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 181
Newhall, The History of Photography, p. 232
