A. Aubrey Bodine Silver Gelatin Photograph "Early Morning Charge," 1943

Item Details

A. Aubrey Bodine (American, 1906 – 1970)
Early Morning Charge, 1943
Silver Gelatin
Signed to lower right margin
Artist’s studio stamp to verso
Includes print information and artist biography from the A. Aubrey Bodine Family Collection

In 1923 A. Aubrey Bodine was an office boy at Baltimore Sun. After taking photographs of the Thomas Viaduct at Relay he showed them to the editor of the Sunday paper who immediately published them. This began Bodine’s career, where he has chronicled every aspect of Maryland life on the pages of the Baltimore Sun. Relying mostly on capturing an image by using his viewfinder, Bodine had also experimented with working on the negative. Using intensifiers, pencil marking, dyes and adding clouds photographically, he was able to create intense manipulations. Bodine has been featured in numerous books, magazines, calendars, and murals. His work has been exhibited extensively and is collected both privately and publicly.

Condition

- toning to sheet and image; ding to sheet with abrasion and loss in the upper branches of the tree to the right of center; scratches and abrasions to image; undulations and handling wear to sheet with some curling and fraying to edges; stain to upper left corner of sheet, more visible from verso.

Dimensions

- measures sheet; image measures 13" W x 10" H.

Item #

ITMGM89833