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Christmas Card, 1960

McBEAN, Angus

© Angus Mcbean/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Angus McBean produced self-portrait Christmas cards to send out to friends and family almost every year from 1933 until 1985. The cards document changing contemporary taste and the photographer’s own ageing appearance. They are highly personal, witty and show his endless capacity for technical invention. In his unpublished autobiography Look Back In Angus, McBean writes "I have used almost every known photographic device to bend the intractable medium to my will, and many times it has been multiple exposure". This photograph was taken on a car journey to Manchester during a thick fall of snow, with the assistance of David Ball. The decorative daisies, a popular 1960s motif, were added later.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 29677

Creation/Production

McBEAN, Angus
Date: 1960

Acquisition

Gift, 7/3/2007
Given by Kingsley Atkinson

Measurements

(): h(cm) image size:29.9
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(): w(cm) image size:37.9
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(): h(cm) primary support:30.2
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(): w(cm) primary support:38
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(): h(cm) mount:30.7
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) mount:38.6
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Techniques

photographic print on card
gelatin silver print

Material

Paper
ink

Location

In store
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  • Animals And Plants
  • Christmas
  • Communities And Society
  • Daisy
  • Fine Art
  • Mcbean, Angus
  • Natural World
  • People
  • Photograph
  • Self-Portrait
  • Snow
  • Tree
  • Works On Paper

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