[ Photographs ] Hoppe, F. Group of 15 photographs comprising puzzling close-ups of everyday objects, such as carpenter shavings, a hall of string, a sugar cube, bootlaces, a powder puff as well as the clockface of big Ben, and a marvelously skewed

[ Photographs ] Hoppe, F. Group of 15 photographs comprising puzzling close-ups of everyday objects, such as carpenter shavings, a hall of string, a sugar cube, bootlaces, a powder puff as well as the clockface of big Ben, and a marvelously skewed street abstraction. Vintage silver prints, 5%x 4% inches and smaller, 6 with Hoppe's handstamp, each with an agency handstamp on verso. 1930s E1800-2200 A curious group of photographs that were made with the idea of teasing readers to figure out what the picture actually represented. Such abstract images encouraged viewers to look at pictures with a fresh eye and were undoubtedly influenced by the "New Objectivity" movement