Sun of the Midi

Edmund Kesting

1928 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

When a print is solarized during development, the areas of photographic tone reverse along its edges. By using this technique, Kesting made the bathers' bodies appear incandescent. His nonsolarized prints from the same negative do not evoke the penetrating heat of the sun so viscerally.

Artist

Edmund Kesting

Date

1928

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

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