Albert Einstein, sitter; Aaron Tycko, photographer
Los Angeles, California
1933
Photographic print, matted and framed
18 x 23 in framed
This photographic portrait shows Albert Einstein head and shoulders against a dark ground, his face softly lit and turned toward the viewer, his hair and mustache catching the light. The image is inscribed in ink at the lower left, Albert Einstein 1933. It is signed by the photographer at the lower right, Tycko L.A.
Einstein sat for the photographer while touring the United States between 1932 and 1933, the years he left Germany and took up residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The sittings took place during his winters in Southern California, and the resulting image became the portrait his family favored and reordered many times. Signed examples carry both the sitter's signature and the photographer's, as this one does.
The print reads clean and well contrasted, with both ink signatures legible in the lower margins. It is float mounted within a wide white mat and glazed. The frame is a dark molding with a gilt inner lip, measuring 18 by 23 inches overall.
Aaron Tycko was a portrait photographer who kept a studio at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He photographed Albert Einstein during the physicist's stays in Southern California in the early 1930s, and Einstein admired the results, writing to Tycko in March 1932 that his handling of light brought photography close to painting. The two became friends, and Tycko was among those invited to a 1934 concert held in Einstein's honor. Prints of his Einstein portraits are held in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Albert Einstein, sitter; Aaron Tycko, photographer
Los Angeles, California
1933
Photographic print, matted and framed
18 x 23 in framed
This photographic portrait shows Albert Einstein head and shoulders against a dark ground, his face softly lit and turned toward the viewer, his hair and mustache catching the light. The image is inscribed in ink at the lower left, Albert Einstein 1933. It is signed by the photographer at the lower right, Tycko L.A.
Einstein sat for the photographer while touring the United States between 1932 and 1933, the years he left Germany and took up residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The sittings took place during his winters in Southern California, and the resulting image became the portrait his family favored and reordered many times. Signed examples carry both the sitter's signature and the photographer's, as this one does.
The print reads clean and well contrasted, with both ink signatures legible in the lower margins. It is float mounted within a wide white mat and glazed. The frame is a dark molding with a gilt inner lip, measuring 18 by 23 inches overall.
Aaron Tycko was a portrait photographer who kept a studio at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He photographed Albert Einstein during the physicist's stays in Southern California in the early 1930s, and Einstein admired the results, writing to Tycko in March 1932 that his handling of light brought photography close to painting. The two became friends, and Tycko was among those invited to a 1934 concert held in Einstein's honor. Prints of his Einstein portraits are held in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center at the Institute for Advanced Study.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
