Caption:
'God' by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg, 1917, Gelatin silver print, 24.1 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.), Photographs, Morton Schamberg (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1881–1918 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (German, 1874–1927), This photograph of a drain pipe attached to a miter box documents one of the most famous examples of American Dada. The sculpture God, a readymade in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp's upended urinal entitled Fountain, has traditionally been attributed to Schamberg, a talented photographer and painter who blended machine imagery and abstraction