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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

2005.283

Not on View

Label TextThese 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.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.