1924, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Self-Portrait as a Photographer -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Kuniyoshi paints himself caught in the act of taking a photograph, an activity he first took up in 1919 to supplement his income. He said of this time, "I bought a regular studio camera and practiced taking pictures by using my own canvases as models... in between painting I received commissions from friends for photographing sculpture and paintings." Later, in the 1930s, he produced photographs as works of art.
1924, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Self-Portrait as a Photographer -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Kuniyoshi paints himself caught in the act of taking a photograph, an activity he first took up in 1919 to supplement his income. He said of this time, "I bought a regular studio camera and practiced taking pictures by using my own canvases as models... in between painting I received commissions from friends for photographing sculpture and paintings." Later, in the 1930s, he produced photographs as works of art.