Self-Portrait as a Photographer by Kuniyoshi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2019

Self-Portrait as a Photographer
1924


Object Details

Artist: Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American (born Japan), Okayama 1889–1953 New York)

Date: 1924

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/2 × 30 1/4 in. (52.1 × 76.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982

Accession Number: 1984.433.11


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.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483246