![]() ![]() Jim Haefner checking his image of Kingswood School Rug No. Photographer Kevin Adkisson, Courtesy of Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. This winter, as the Center prepares for our next fundraiser, A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen on May 21, 2022, it has become mission-critical to get better documentation of Studio Loja Saarinen’s rugs.Įnter in our latest project! Jim Haefner and his assistant set up the camera in Cranbrook Art Museum’s Vault. ![]() The lack of excellent, high quality images limited not only how we at Cranbrook understood and shared Loja’s legacy, but also made it difficult for students or scholars researching Loja Saarinen to get a complete sense of her artistic output. We had almost no ‘born digital’ high-resolution photographs of Loja’s work–these are the best kind of photographs for sharing her work in slides, online, or in print. Color photographs were limited to poorly distorted slides, or photographs of portions of the rugs taken on early digital cameras while the rugs were half-rolled-up in storage. ![]() But the rugs are very large, and often, we only had black-and-white photographs of the rugs on the floor in the 1930s. We have excellent archival records about the operation of the studio, including records of yarn orders and charts of the time spent weaving rugs (it was a lot!). ![]()
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