Photography

Herbert Brooks Walker II, "Wire family", c. 1950, bent wire [AWG/6 or rebar #50?], 2x 3 m+?, Photo HBW2 c.1950s. Gelatin silver print by HBW2, 19.4 x 24.1 cm. Walker Collection. Current artwork ownership, location or existence is unknown.

Wire family, c.1950, Stony Brook, NY.
Gelatin silver print by HBW2

HB shot with 2 Rolleiflex, one for black and white, and one for color, and printed black and white gelatin silver prints in his darkroom located in the basement of Walker Museum.

The color 6x6cm slides from global travels were used for educational slides shows illustating the Walker Museum collections and mission.

Professional assignments included documenting with stills, movies and watercolors the Gahagan Corporation's dredging of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela for the petroleum industry in the early 1950's.

The Museum of Modern Art, NY used his images of Casa Mila for the installation of Antoni Gaudì Exhibition 1957-58 and catalog.

MOMA credits [pg.53] HBW2: 39, 44, 51, 53, 55-64.

To be continued ....

Museum of Modern Art, NY used his images of Casa Mila for the installation of Antoni Gaudì Exhibition 1957-58

Antoni Gaudì Exhibition 1957-58, MOMA

Herbert Brooks Walker, "Noel in 19th C. museum costume, with parasol", gelatin silver print by HBW2, 35.8 x 28 cm, Walker Collection

"Noel wearing a museum costume & parasol", gelatin silver print by HBW2

Herbert Brooks Walker II, "Photographic portrait", (by JAW?), c. Late 1940s?, Gelatin silver print (printed by HB?), 43 x35.5 cm, somewhere in Italy?, Walker Collection. [Foxing, degraded print, partially restored digitally.]

Herbert Brooks Walker II, by JAW?, c. Late 1940s, (self-portrait, or by JAW, somewhere in Italy?), gelatin silver print , 43 x35.5 cm, Walker Collection

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