Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS (1888-1963)
Lot 97

MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS (1888-1963)

Self-Portrait in a Cutout Window Silhouette, Paris, May, c. 1936

Closed6 December 2012

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USD 1,875

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MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS (1888-1963)
Self-Portrait in a Cutout Window Silhouette, Paris, May, c. 1936
gelatin silver print
credit, caption and collection labels affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 6 x 5 7/8in. (15.2 x 15cm.)
mount: 9 x 7in. (22.8 x 17.8cm.)

Specialist note

Absorbed in all that was Paris between the wars, M.O. Williams apparently did not realize he had captured his own reflection in this image until after he had taken the picture: "The eye ignores what it doesn't want to see. Here the camera reveals more than a man sees himself." M.O. Williams