Anton Stankowski 1906-1998

The Collection of Anton Stankowski

Rolf Mayer, Köln

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Other prints of this image:

Anton Stankowski, Was Ist Wenn (Stuttgart, 1990, in conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Mayer & Mayer, Köln), unpaginated

Anton Stankowski: Fotografie (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1991, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 99/1

Ulrike Gauss, ed., Stankowski 06: Aspects of His Oeuvre (Ostfildern, 2006), p. 190

Stankowski's photograph of a tailor's mannequin served as a point of departure for an extensive series of 39 photo-collages by the photographer which he called Visual Plans with 1 Photo.  In the series, begun in 1933, Stankowski modified the mannequin photograph in a variety of ways: enlarging, reducing, multiplying, blurring, and solarizing it, as well as bisecting it, and transforming it into a negative.  He added collage elements that included other photographs - of scissors, and a smokestack - as well as typography, geometric shapes, and a musical score.  The series is surprisingly diverse given that each image takes the same photograph as its starting point.  The entire series is reproduced in Stankowski 06: Aspects of His Oeuvre (pp. 190-91).