Artist
William Hills Sheldon
William Hills Sheldon is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
William Hills Sheldon ate the same lunch every noon—vanilla pudding in a dented metal bowl—then walked the Brooklyn Bridge at 1:07 sharp. The black-and-white photos he made in the 1940s catch strangers who are always caught mid-yawn or sneeze, their faces lit by diner fluorescents and El-train arcs. His photograph “Untitled (Photograph)” turns a subway platform into a stage where half the actors haven’t noticed the curtain is up. Tap this file to see how a pudding bowl, a bridge, and a train car can choreograph a moment no one planned.
Works by William Hills Sheldon
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.