Description

The photograph depicts a young girl holding a doll in her left arm. The image was scanned from copy negative of an original print borrowed from the the collection of Christopher Wood, Jasper Wood's son. The original print was developed by Jasper Wood in 1951 and represents the only image in the digitized "Jasper Wood Collection" that was developed by Wood when he was actively taking photographs. "Girl with Doll" won a first place award in Photography Magazine's 31st annual competition in 1951. The photograph is featured in the September 1951 issue of American Photography magazine. The original print measures 8 inches by 12 7/8 inches (20.5 centimeters by 32.5 centimeters). Cleveland free speech activist Jasper Wood was a self-taught writer and photographer. His principal subjects were the residents of the Scovill Avenue area of Cleveland, with whom he became familiar while frequenting jazz clubs in the neighborhood in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He purchased his first camera in 1946 and first exhibited his work in 1947 at the Cleveland Museum of Art's annual May Show. According to the Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he won three first place May Show awards (1949, 1951, 1953) and two honorable mentions (1947, 1952) for his photographs. His last May Show entry was in 1958. Through his photographs, many of which were taken with a Contax 35mm camera, Wood attempted to capture what he called the “felt moment seen,” or the emotional essence of what he, the photographer, was...

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Cleveland Public Library

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Ohio Digital Network