Light Drawing

Herbert Matter, c. 1943

The camera goes further than the human eye, wrote the graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter in 1944. In that year this light drawing by him was featured on the cover of the magazine Arts & Architecture. He ‘drew’ in the air with a source of light. While the eye can only partly follow the result, the camera registers the entire movement and records it as an abstract pattern

  • Artwork typephotograph
  • Object numberRP-F-2014-28
  • Dimensionsheight 584 mm x width 494 mm
  • Physical characteristicsontwikkelgelatinezilverdruk