Another little beauty of a photo I think, with this nude bronze couple appearing as if contemplating their own shadows, with leafy curtain raking across the frame in the other direction. I've learned the photo was taken by German photographer and cinematographer Heinz Koberg, of George Kolbe's bronze sculpture "Menschenpaar" (translation: couple) which was installed in Hannover, Germany in 1937. An archive of Koberg's photographs of Hannover held by the Hannover Archive dates the photograph to 1938, and a handwritten note on the back place its purchase to 1939--the printed attribution on the back suggests it was produced in an edition, though I can find no other prints of it out there anywhere. I do believe the couple can readily be interpreted as standing for Adam and Eve, or archetypal man and woman--and so the shadow here reads rather as if their legacy--i.e. their literal long shadow--with nods to the Garden too!
3 5/8" x 2 3/8" and in good condition.
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