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Rut mit Maske
Night in a Small Town
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This photograph does not describe what Otto Umbehr saw when he looked out his window in Berlin, but what he discovered when he turned his overhead view of the street upside-down. His simple inversion (indicated by his signature "Umbo" in the lower right corner) posits an unsettling world in which the insubstantial dominates the substantial, and imagination intercepts cognition.
Inscription: Signed in ink on print, recto, bottom right: "UMBO"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso, top center: "Mysterium der Strasse"; bottom right: "JL#48"; inscribed in blue pencil on print, verso, top right: "347/75"
Julien Levy, New York; Mrs. Julien Levy; [Marcuse Pfeifer, New York]; John C. Waddell, New York (May 7, 1981)
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