Iron and Steel

Title
Iron and Steel
Creator
Year/Period
1970
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Image size: 13.0 x 20.0 inches,
Object size: 52.5 x 35.5 cm,
Image size: 50.0 x 33.0 cm,
Frame size: 51.5 x 33.5 cm,
Image size: 50.0 x 32.0 cm,
Object size: 5.0 x 5.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00051
Credit Line
This acquisition was made possible with donations to the Art Adoption & Acquisition Programme

This photograph was taken by Singaporean photographer Tan Lip Seng. His works in the 1960s were a result of various experiments meticulously combining multiple colour transparencies into one to achieve the desired montage within one frame.Tan Lip Seng started his career as a medical photographer at the National University of Singapore. He is famous worldwide for his innovative colour derivative photo montage technique as well as his travel photography.