Self-Portrait as a Photographer
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
1924 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art
The painter is caught in the act of taking a photograph, an activity he first took up in 1919 to supplement his income. "I bought a regular studio camera and practiced taking pictures by using my own canvases as models…. in between painting I received commissions from friends and galleries for photographing sculpture and paintings." Later, in the 1930s, he also produced photographs that were independent artworks.
- Artist
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
