Sherril Schell
Unknown Modernist
April 12 - June 16, 2006
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The city's abstract qualities captured by a modern master.
Sherril Schell: Unknown Modernist features fifteen rarely displayed photographs from the Museum of the City of New York's permanent collection by this pioneering but long-overlooked modern master. Like some contemporaneous European photographers, Schell (1877-1964) saw beyond photography’s documentary function, employing unconventional perspectives to create striking compositions, often with strong diagonal elements, that stressed the abstract qualities of the city’s built environment.
Sherril Schell, "Garment Center," c. 1930. Museum of the City of New York, 56.51.7
