Mystery of the Street

Title (Dublin Core): Mystery of the Street
Type (Dublin Core): Photograph
Medium (Dublin Core): gelatin silver prints
Description (Dublin Core): This photograph does not describe what Otto Umbehr saw when he looked out his window in Berlin, but what he discovered when he turned his overhead view of the street upside-down. His simple inversion (indicated by his signature "Umbo" in the lower right corner) posits an unsettling world in which the insubstantial dominates the substantial, and imagination intercepts cognition.
has dimension (CIDOC CRM Ontology): 29 x 23.5 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Creator (Dublin Core): Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
Date (Dublin Core): 1928
Coverage (Dublin Core): Surrealist
Subject (Dublin Core): street scenes
Provenance (Dublin Core): Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
References (Dublin Core): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265563; https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/objects/83932.html