Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience OOP The film director's debut collection

The film director's debut collection of portrait-photographs

Though he is perhaps best known for his controversial "sacred subjects" in which he posed himself as Jesus Christ

48 duotone plates

reveal a common bond that is rapidly disappearing in the United States

he binds two boys together with a “harness” and leaves them in an empty room for a psychological game of tug-of-war

Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience OOP The film director's debut collectionEdited by William C. Agee Ralston Crawford has been most closely identified with Precisionism. His Paintings of the thirties rank among the best produced by any of the Precisionists. Yet his Precisionist painting occupied him for less than ten years. By 1944 his art had undergone a profound shift and expansion of style and range of feeling, and his work in painting, lithography, drawing, watercolor, etching, photography, motion pictures and sound