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Val Telberg
Self-Portrait in St. Mark's Placecirca 1948

Not on view
Tintype-style portrait photograph, close-up of an older white man's face tilted upward, dramatically lit from the left with heavy shadows and chemical surface irregularities

Val Telberg, Self-Portrait in St. Mark's Place, circa 1948, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Val Telberg
Russia, Moscow, active United States, 1910-1995
Title
Self-Portrait in St. Mark's Place
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1948
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm) Primary support: 9 1/2 × 8 in. (24.13 × 20.32 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.125
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.
Copyright
© Estate of Val Telberg