From "Erinnerungsspur" (Memory's Trace)
Dieter Appelt
1979
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 29.3 x 39.5 cm (11 9/16 x 15 9/16 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 40.6 cm (12 1/8 x 16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.9
About the Artist
Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt is a German artist and photographer born in 1935 in Niemegk, Brandenburg, whose work occupies a challenging and deeply personal space between performance, body art, and photography. Trained initially as an opera singer and composer, he came to visual art relatively late, a trajectory that infused his photographic practice with a performer's acute awareness of time, presence, and the ...