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Series Title: Fotografie ringl + pit

Komol Haircoloring Advertising

1932, printed 1985

ringl + pit

(German)

Ellen Auerbach

(American, 1906–2004)

Grete Stern

(German, 1904–1999)
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Culture
Germany
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 20.6 x 32.4 cm (8 1/8 x 12 3/4 in.); Mounted: 38 x 48.2 cm (14 15/16 x 19 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne, in memory of Gerd Sander 2024.23.3
Edition
edition 22/35
Copyright
© ringl+pit
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Color printing did not become common in magazines until the 1940s.

Description

Challenged with advertising haircoloring in a black-and-white image, the team of ringl + pit (Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach) cut an abstracted profile of a woman’s head out of paper, laid a screen on top of it, and on top of that, hanks of fake hair, one very light and the other dark. They used photography to convey conceptual information instead of for its ability to realistically represent the external world.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph features a wire mesh screen overlaying a surrealist composition. Across the top, three undulating hair swatches arch in varying tones of gray. Behind the grid, a pale silhouette of a head faces right. A labeled box occupies the upper left, while a small dark bottle anchors the bottom center. The mesh creates a geometric texture across the dreamlike, layered imagery.

Komol Haircoloring Advertising

1932, printed 1985

ringl + pit, Ellen Auerbach, Grete Stern

(German), (American, 1906–2004), (German, 1904–1999)
Germany

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