Piazza della Signoria

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Piazza della Signoria

Artist Eric Lindbloom (American, 1934 - 2020)

Dateabout 1979

DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (18.8 x 19.7 cm);
Mount: 15 15/16 x 13 in. (40.5 x 33.0 cm)

MediumSelenium toned gelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Ann Lindbloom La Rue

Object number

1996.6

Not on View

Label Text“As the first prints come up language. Try as we will to make fair representations of things in the world that move us, metaphors know the trick of entering the work through a small aperture in a fraction of a second.” --Eric Lindbloom Born in Detroit, Eric Lindbloom graduated from the University of Michigan, where he majored in literature and philosophy. From 1969 to 1971 he studied photography with Paul Caponigro (see Caponigro’s Frosted Window, Revere, MA in this exhibition). This photograph was taken with a Diana camera (a small plastic camera with a fixed shutter speed and three aperture settings) during a series of trips to Florence, Italy, beginning in 1979. Moving through the city by impulse with curiosity and receptiveness, Lindbloom allowed chance to guide his creativity. The Diana camera, which reduces the tonal scale to black, white, and middle gray, compounded the element of chance. The lack of control freed the artist and liberated his subjects. The sculptural horses seem to emerge and move through the softness of the background to the surface, mysteriously animated.Published Referencescf. Angels at the Arno / photographs by Eric Lindbloom, Boston, 1994, (frontispiece)Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.