Val Telberg No. 7 Self Portrait 1948 (ca) at Luminous-Lint




Names:
Born: Vladimir Telberg-von-Telheim 
Dates:  1910, 14 February - 1995, 5 April
Born:  Russia, Moscow
Active:  US
  
Noted for photomontage and photocollage. His surrealist dream-inspired work was used to illustrate an edition of Anais Nin, House of Incest (Swallow Press, 1957)
 
Found at http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Val__Telberg/A/

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Internet biographies


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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography.Go to website


Printed biographies


The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.


• Coke, Van Deren with Diana C. Du Pont 1986 Photography: A Facet of Modernism (New York: Hudson Hills Press, The San Francisco Museum of Art) p.186
 
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.]
 
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection(New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.229 [Includes a well written short biography on Val Telberg with example plate(s) earlier in book.]
  


Useful printed stuff


If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.


• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.234, Plate 90 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Val Telberg this is a useful starting point.]
  


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