Kenneth Josephson
Kenneth Josephson, Stockholm, 1967
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm)
5377
$8,000
Kenneth Josephson, New York State, 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 1/8 in. (15.2 x 23.2 cm)
5484
Price Upon Request
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1961
Early gelatin silver print, printed 1970s, 8 x 11 15/16 in. (20.3 x 30.3 cm)
47592
$9,000
Signed, titled, dated and editioned with negative number "61-35-50-28" and notations in pencil on print verso.
Illustrated: Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999, p. 79, pl. 22. Kenneth Josephson. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1983, p. 44, pl. 38.Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999, p. 79, pl. 22. Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2002, p. 143, pl. 136. Kenneth Josephson: The First Fifty Years. Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2008, p. 31.Kenneth Josephson: Selected Photographs. Berlin: Only Photography, 2013, p. 69. The Light of Coincidence: The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2016, p. 145.
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print; printed c. 1970, 7 7/8 x 11 15/16 in. (20 x 30.3 cm)
7562
$9,000
Kenneth Josephson, Matthew, 1963
Early gelatin silver print, printed 1970s, 12 x 8 in. (30.5 x 20.3 cm)
4071
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Polapans, 1973
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (23 x 23 cm)
(last available vintage print)
6612
$15,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1969/2012
Gelatin silver print, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (17.1 x 22.5 cm)
(Conceived 1969, Born 2012)
8019
$3,500
Kenneth Josephson, Drottningholm, Sweden, 1967
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s, 7 7/8 x 12 in. (20 x 30.5 cm)
7742
$9,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1973
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
This image alludes to early 19th Century photography when the exposures necessary to capture an image of the landscape would leave the sky blank. Photographers would either paint in the clouds or print them with a separate negative.
5057
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Michigan, 1974
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (20 x 30.3 cm)
Edition of 50
5103
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1980
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 12 in. (20 x 30.5 cm)
Edition of 50
7998
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Michigan, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
(self-portrait)
4061
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Illinois, 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print collage, 5 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (13.3 x 22.5 cm)
(self-portrait)
8000
$20,000
Mounted. Signed, titled, dated, editioned 5/8 and annotated "70-35-8" in pencil on mount verso.
Illustrated: Kenneth Josephson. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1983, pl. 46, p. 51. The Light of Coincidence: The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2016, p. 39.
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print with halftone collage, 4 1/8 x 6 1/16 in. (10.5 x 15.4 cm)
8027
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1972
Vintage gelatin silver print with halftone collage, 4 5/8 x 7 in. (11.8 x 17.8 cm)
(last available piece in the edition, other 2 prints in museum collections)
8001
$20,000
Kenneth Josephson, Grand Canyon, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
3785
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Illinois, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 in. (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
5055
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1959
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 7 1/16 in. (17.9 x 17.9 cm)
5032
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Untitled, 1959
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (18.1 x 18.1 cm)
3780
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 in. (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
3934
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 in. (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
6590
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 1/16 in. (17.8 x 17.9 cm)
Josephson used an 8x10 camera to photograph the stones but did so with a sheet of paper in the camera instead of film and processed it. The print was thus a negative image. He then placed that print on the stones and photographed it with stones around it and so the stones in the negative image were in approximately their original position. He did this by again using paper instead of film in the camera thus the central image captured on the paper was a positive with a negative image surrounding it. This is how he created the top print. The bottom image was created by photographing the top print in the same manner. He made the final photograph of the two prints on the stones with a 2 1/4 camera using film.
6603
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Filmholder #1, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 12 x 9 1/2 in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
8009
$7,000
To make this unique photographic object, Josephson first photographed an 8x10 inch film holder with an 8x10 camera which he fitted with 8x10 gelatin silver paper instead of film. This created a direct negative image on that paper. He then put that photograph upside down in the same film holder he had photographed and repeated the process, photographing the film holder again but now with a negative image of itself inside. The resulting photograph, another direct “negative” shows the film holder as a negative with a “positive” image of the film holder inside it. He then framed it in the film holder he had photographed.
Kenneth Josephson, Filmholder #2, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 12 x 9 1/2 in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
8010
$7,000
To make this unique photographic object, Josephson first photographed an 8x10 inch film holder with an 8x10 camera which he fitted with 8x10 gelatin silver paper instead of film. This created a direct negative image on that paper. He then put that photograph upside down in the same film holder he had photographed and repeated the process, photographing the film holder again but now with a negative image of itself inside. The resulting photograph, another direct “negative” shows the film holder as a negative with a “positive” image of the film holder inside it. He then framed it in the film holder he had photographed.
Kenneth Josephson, Filmholder #5, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 12 x 9 1/2 in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
8008
$7,000
To make this unique photographic object, Josephson first photographed an 8x10 inch film holder with an 8x10 camera which he fitted with 8x10 gelatin silver paper instead of film. This created a direct negative image on that paper. He then put that photograph upside down in the same film holder he had photographed and repeated the process, photographing the film holder again but now with a negative image of itself inside. The resulting photograph, another direct “negative” shows the film holder as a negative with a “positive” image of the film holder inside it. He then framed it in the film holder he had photographed.
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1976
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 15/16 x 12 in. (20.2 x 30.5 cm)
(an allusion to Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 photographic sequence that proved that all four hooves of a horse are off the ground at the same time during a trot and a gallop)
8024
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Untitled, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 7 1/16 in. (17.9 x 17.9 cm)
8017
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, My Children, 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (34.9 x 27.3 cm)
(montage of Super 8mm film of artist’s children)
8025
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print, 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.8 x 16.8 cm)
3733
Sold
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print, 4 9/16 x 6 5/8 in. (11.6 x 16.8 cm)
4069
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Stockholm, 1966
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 in. (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
4043
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1980
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 x 9 in. (22.9 x 22.9 cm)
Edition of 50
6615
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Wisconsin, 1980
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 x 8 15/16 in. (22.9 x 22.7 cm)
Edition of 50
5251
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Honolulu, 1968
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 7 in. (17.9 x 17.8 cm)
6591
$7,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
5028
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Honolulu, 1968
Vintage gelatin silver print, 5 7/8 x 9 in. (14.9 x 22.9 cm)
4039
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print, 5 13/16 x 8 13/16 in. (14.8 x 22.4 cm)
7366
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1954
Vintage gelatin silver print, 4 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. (11.8 x 22.5 cm)
8014
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1959
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 3/8 x 5 3/16 in. (23.8 x 13.2 cm)
3769
$8,000
Kenneth Josephson, Sally, 1976
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (20 x 30.3 cm)
6910
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Amritsar, India, 1975
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (20 x 30.2 cm)
3949
$5,000
Kenneth Josephson, Oregon, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 in. (17.8 x 17.8 cm)
6588
$6,000
Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1960
Vintage gelatin silver print, 3 5/16 x 9 7/16 in. (8.4 x 24 cm)
8002
$8,000