Keywords: El Lissitzky The Constructor, self-portrait, gelatin silver print, 107×118 mm, 1924 London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Inv. PH142-1985.jpg en El Lissitzky The Constructor self-portrait gelatin silver print 107×118 mm 1924 London Victoria and Albert Museum Inv PH142-1985 Monochrome photograph silver gelatin print of a collage of lithographic and drawn elements added to a photographic image The photographic image was itself produced by superimposing two separate photographs The Architects Equipment showing El Lissitzky's hand holding a compass against graph paper with an arching line and his Self Portrait both taken in 1924 while Lissitzky was recovering from tuberculosis in a Swiss sanatorium The resulting image fuses the artist's head hand and tools Large printed letters 'XYZ' appear in the top left hand portion of the image http //collections vam ac uk/item/O136602/self-portrait-constructor-photograph-lissitzky-el/ Creator El Lissitzky 1924 PD-old-auto 1941 Image El Lissitzky Self-portrait jpg Photographs by El Lissitzky 1924 portrait photographs Text XYZ 20th-century self-portrait photographs of men Black and white photomontages of people |