Osamu Shiihara

solarized, ferrotyped, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1938

Deborah Bell, New York, 2000

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 103 and 247 (this print)

This ferrotyped print is in generally very good to excellent condition. The edges are slightly rubbed, and the corners are somewhat bumped, and have tiny pinholes. There are soft and sharp creases that do not break the emulsion at the right side near the edge. In raking light, the following are visible: several faint scratches; silvering in the dark areas; and issues that are typical of ferrotyping--unevenness and random small pitting in the glossiness of the surface. The following numbers are on the reverse in pencil: '326A,' 'F-90,' and 'TR 1341-99.'
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