Light Weavings

Giuseppe Albergamo

1939 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

A self-taught portrait photographer based in Palermo, Albergamo was associated with Futurist circles in the early 1930s. He made these nearly abstract studies of anti-aircraft tracer bullets in the night sky over Palermo at the beginning of World War II.

Artist

Giuseppe Albergamo

Date

1939

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987