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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

Numbers in Images: Illuminations of Numerical Meanings / Bing, Ilse., 1976

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Identifier: CC-20931-21340
Scope and Contents Ilsa Bing was a famous German photographer in the 1920's. Bing's fame spread to New York by 1932 when the art dealer Julien Levy started to collect her work. Bing was included in Levy's exhibition "Modern European Photography: Twenty Photographers", in 1932. She was first invited to New York in 1936 by the author Hendrik Willem van Loon. Following her return to Paris, examples of Bing's work were selected by Beaumont Newhall for the landmark 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bing and her husband were sent to internment camps in France in 1939. When she was released in 1940 she sailed for the United States, and settled in New York. For many years, like a number of European refugee artists, Bing's European fame did not follow her to post-war New York. Only in 1977 did her rediscovery begin. The Art Institute of Chicago presented her work in the landmark show "Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection", and gradually a steady stream of exhibitions,...
Dates: 1976

Nup Chal Han Buk / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09033-9210
Scope and Contents

According to Hirschman, the title derives from four Mayan words: Nup=unite(d), Chal=mend, sew together, Han=clear, clean, Buk=heart. He thought of this as a marraige gift since the words can be read as Nuptial Handbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Obsolete Rubberstamps / Petasz, Pawel., 1979

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Identifier: CC-58236-10001488
Scope and Contents

The two copiesof this book have identical covers but the rubberstamped pages differ. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Obsolete Rubberstamps / Petasz, Pawel., 1979

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Identifier: CC-04655-4742
Scope and Contents

The two copies of this book have identical covers but the rubberstamped pages differ. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Off The Shelf / Spector B ; Wharton M ; Carothers M ; Ely T ; Hamady W ; Lipski D ; Long ME ; Miller B ; Poehlmann JA ; Rollins T+KOS ; Sligh C., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05044-5143
Scope and Contents

Sackner Archive lent Martha Carothers book "Three Sheets in The Wind" to exhibitionand this piece is depicted in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990