[Fotoescultura (bride and groom)]
Hybrid Photographic Object
Unidentified
Maker
[Fotoescultura (bride and groom)]
ca. 1925
Gelatin silver print with applied color, wood, rhinestones, and lace, manufactured ca. 1950
Overall: 12 × 15 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (30.5 × 39.4 × 7.9 cm)
Gift of J. Randall Plummer, 2014
2014.0186.0006
Inscriptions [no inscription]
TextA phenomenon exclusive to Mexico, photosculptures (foto-escultura) were wildly popular from the 1930s to the 1970s. The wooden reliefs were double-glazed and occasionally embellished with lace, cloth, buttons, or paste jewelry. (The glazing of the examples shown here is now lost.) Although commercially produced photosculptures of movie stars and political figures were available, the objects were most often commissioned by individuals for display in their homes or in family mausoleums, where they commemorated important events and loved ones.
