File:Carole Harmel Masks 1973.jpg

Photograph, Masks (toned vintage gelatin print, 5" x 7", 1973) by artist Carole Harmel. Illustrates an early and key stage in Harmel's development and career when she was focusing on surreal, figurative works, involving nudes, props and theatrical settings. These new works were exhibited and reviewed extensively and this particular work won a prize at the Art Institute of Chicago's "Chicago & Vicinity Show" of 1973.

Exhibition catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Seventy-fourth Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity catalogue, Chicago, 1973. Copyright held by the artist.

Carole Harmel

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key element and critical shift in the artist's practice and technique: her beginnings creating surreal, figurative works, involving nudes, props and theatrical settings. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this shift in her art. Harmel's figurative nudes and this work in particular is discussed extensively in the article and have been discussed in detail by numerous art critics.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this type by Harmel, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.