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John Collins
Self-Portrait, Frame-in-Frame1935

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a man in a dark suit seen in profile, holding a framed portrait of himself that contains a smaller portrait within it, creating a recursive image-within-image effect
Artist or Maker
John Collins
United States, 1888-1990
Title
Self-Portrait, Frame-in-Frame
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1935
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (34.29 × 26.7 cm) Primary support: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 28 cm) Mat: 23 13/16 × 19 7/8 in. (60.5 × 50.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.31
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.