Charles Gervin
1993
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 37.2 × 55.6 cm (14 5/8 × 21 7/8 in.) sheet: 50.2 × 60.7 cm (19 3/4 × 23 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Nancy Andrews and Annie O'Neill
Accession Number
2022.122.69
Art Historical Context
Nancy Andrews' *Charlesin* (1993) is a striking gelatin silver print, capturing a moment in time through the classic black-and-white photographic process that defined much of 20th-century imaging. Measuring 37.2 × 55.6 cm, this intimate portrait invites viewers to contemplate the subject's presence—likely a personal figure in Andrews' life—rendered with the medium's hallmark tonal richness and fine grain detail. Gelatin silver prints, which embed light-sensitive silver salts in a gelatin emulsion on paper, were prized for their archival quality and depth, even as digital photography emerged in...
About the Artist
Nancy Andrews
Nancy Evelyn Andrews is an American artist and filmmaker whose inventive hybrid works — weaving together animation, puppetry, live-action narrative, documentary, music, and handmade props — have earned her a place among the most original voices in contemporary experimental cinema. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1983 and a Master of Fine Arts at th...