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Venus, Jupiter and Mars
Trimmed 8x10 inch contact print, 1949
Frederick Sommer used two basic components to create "Venus, Jupiter and Mars." One was the back of an old circus photograph that had previously been glued to a rough wall where the leg of a spider had been caught in the glue. The second part was a fragment from a magazine illustration of two men and one woman. When the two were paired, the leg of the spider completed the jaw-line of Venus and to Sommer's amusement, one of the gentleman gained an antenna. Sommer further worked the image by etching directly on the negative (bottom and top left).

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