This photograph continues Zellen's preoccupations with city life. This piece suggests the situation of immigration to an American city at the turn of the century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The outstretched hand placed into an opened picture frame is the main focal point in this work. It overlays fragmented words with a charged political content, e.g., nudity, oppression, art, suspect, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The is a photograph of a collage done by Zellen that incorporates an image of the Galleria in Milan, Italy with textural statements placed in the spaces of this structure about city life as interpreted by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image was taken from an engraving of a large room within a Victorian, commercial picture gallery. Zellin substituted fragmenteds text for the visual images within the picture frames hanging on the walls and propped against the walls and staircase balconies. The picture frame at the lower right corner contains the text, "ER-THE END." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.