Untitled

Artist Adam Fuss (British, born 1961)

Date1985

DimensionsH: 23 1/4 in. (59.1 cm); W: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)

MediumGelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineCarl B. Spitzer Fund

Object number

2005.284

Not on View

Label TextWhile working security at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, photographer Adam Fuss became fascinated by the atmosphere of the classical sculpture galleries at night. He took this and the two other photographs from his Pinhole Series displayed nearby with a pinhole camera—a simple camera without a lens, but with a small hole in one side to let in light. Fuss wrote, “These figures have a certain kind of life…at night they’d come alive, full of power and mystery…I thought about taking these pinhole pictures at night, completely alone, and it seemed possible to create or recreate a photographic space in which the sculptures could breathe. Also, behind my move in this direction was a reaction to the pervasive technological-consumerist photographic culture.”Published Referencesc.f. Pinhole Photographs: Adam Fuss (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996): n.p.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.