| Robert H. Cumming Three Sides of a Small House, the Fourth Being Obscured by a Low Wall and Some Foliage (detail) 1974 Gelatin silver print 6 1/4 x 8 in (each) Art © Robert Cumming/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY LL/33380 Cumming sums up the underlying themes of his images as "out-and-out illusionism and magic tricks, satires, on the misreading of natural phenomena, and sardonic commentaries on the history or art and photography."
James Alinder, Cumming Photographs (Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography, 1979), 5-6.
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