Condition Report: Fine, harmonious overall appearance. The sheet edges without tears or losses, in the white margin faintly yellowed. Blacklight tested, no fluorescence. The corners lightly bumped, with accompanying creases as well as isolated minuscule losses of gelatin layer. The paper slightly undulated. In the upper right corner area, hairline creases; in the lower area at the centre, a horizontal handling crease (6 cm). On the reverse, the paper with slight scuffs and light staining. In the upper corners, mounted with Japan paper onto the support cardboard

Exh. cat.: Berliner Kunststücke: die Sammlung der Berlinischen Galerie zu Gast. Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, and Berlin, Neue Galerie d. Zentrums für Kunstausst. d. DDR im Alten Museum, 1990, p. 433 (biography)

This work documents William Wauer’s experimental use of photography as a multi-stage process of form-finding: The artist arranged the folded paper figures in three-dimensional space, photographed this arrangement, and traced in pencil the outlines of the figures – now rendered two-dimensional – on the print. From this reworked photo template, he produced a new print; the work on display is the result of this second photographic transfer. In this way, three-dimensional sculpture, drawn line and photographic surface are merged into a new pictorial form