El Fantasma (Ghost)
1944
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 11.7 × 9 cm (4 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Scott Nathan and Laura DeBonis Fund
Accession Number
2020.146.1
Art Historical Context
**El Fantasma (Ghost)** Captured in 1944 by Mexican photographer Antonio Reynoso, *El Fantasma (Ghost)* is a haunting gelatin silver print measuring just 11.7 × 9 cm. This intimate-scale photograph, now housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Photographs, invites viewers into a shadowy world evoked by its evocative title. Reynoso, active during Mexico's vibrant mid-20th-century photographic scene, crafted this work amid global upheavals like World War II, when images often explored the ethereal and unseen. The gelatin silver print medium, a staple of black-and-white photograph...