Esteban de Viguera, exterior view
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 29.21 × 23.81 cm (11 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.) sheet: 39.37 × 30.48 cm (15 1/2 × 12 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.4647.1
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's *Esteban de Vigu, exterior view* (1991) captures the stark, weathered facade of this historic Spanish structure, likely a fortress or outpost in La Rioja, evoking centuries of layered history amid rugged terrain. Working in the post-Cold War era, Schulz-Dornburg a German photographer renowned for her meticulous documentation of remote architectures and borderlands, turns her lens to sites that whisper tales of isolation and endurance. This gelatin silver print, with its precise 29.21 × 23.81 cm image, exemplifies her minimalist approach, stripping away ornament to high...
About the Artist
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (b. 1938) is a German photographer and conceptual artist whose spare, methodical images of landscape, infrastructure, and architecture have established her as one of the most distinctive voices in European documentary photography. Born in Berlin, she studied ethnology at the University of Munich beginning in 1958 before transferring to study photojournalism at the Institut f...