Untitled
Artist: Adam Fuss (British, born 1961)
Date: 1985
Dimensions:
H: 23 1/4 in. (59.1 cm); W: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Carl B. Spitzer Fund
Object number: 2005.283
Label Text:These three images were produced early in the career of Adam Fuss. Using a pinhole camera (a camera without a lens, but only a small hole in one side to let light in), Fuss photographed the sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was working as a guard at the time. As he explained, “at night, they’d come alive, full of power and mystery…it seemed possible to create a photographic space in which the sculptures could breathe.”
The pinhole camera is particularly suited for ‘creating a photographic space’, because the central portion of the image is in sharp focus with continual degradation towards the edges until the image disappears altogether. The objects appear to float and dissolve into unlimited space.
The pinhole camera is particularly suited for ‘creating a photographic space’, because the central portion of the image is in sharp focus with continual degradation towards the edges until the image disappears altogether. The objects appear to float and dissolve into unlimited space.
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