© Lelia K. Telberg for Estate of Val Telberg
| Val Telberg (Russia, Moscow, 1910 - 1995) Portrait of a Friend, circa 1947 Photograph, Gelatin-silver print, Unframed: 10 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (27.62 x 23.18 cm) Ralph M. Parsons Fund (M.87.81.1) Photography Department. | |
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| Artwork in Focus Born in Russia, Val Telberg lived in Moscow and in Tungchow, China, before coming to the United States in 1928 to complete his education. He studied painting at the Art Students League in New York, where he encountered the work of surrealist artists René Magritte and Salvador Dali as well as the films of Jean Cocteau and other experimental filmmakers. Telberg supported himself with a number of odd jobs, including a quick-developing service for nightclub camera girls, and he later ran a comic-photo concession at an amusement park. This commercial work constituted Telberg's introduction to manipulating photographic processes, but by 1945 he had begun a serious exploration of photography. ... more | |
| Subject Groupings Photography -- 1940 - 1959 | |
| Exhibition Catalogs for This Artwork Grundberg, Andy; Gauss, Kathleen McCarthy. Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987, p. 68 See other artworks in this book | |
| Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988, 113 See other artworks in this book |
