Wasserauflösung
Photograph
1977 (made)
1977 (made)
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Floris Neusüss has dedicated his career to extending the practice, study and teaching of experimental photography and the photogram. Alongside his practice as an artist, he is known as an influential writer and teacher, working as Professor in Experimental Photography, University of Kassel, Germany from 1971 until 2009. Since first exhibiting in the 1960s, he has consistently explored the photogram's numerous technical, conceptual and visual possibilities, resulting in works that range from the figurative to the abstract.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Black and white photograph, 'Water dissolution', by Floris Neusüss, Arles, 1977. |
| Physical description | 'Water dissolution', a black and white photograph of a human silhouette cut out from paper floating in the ocean, gelatin silver print by Floris Neusüss, 1977. |
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| Gallery label | Photo London: Beneath the Surface
Somerset House 20 May - 24 August
Floris Neusüss (born 1937)
Wasserauflösung / Water Dissolution, 1977
Neusüss has dedicated his career to experimenting with photograms, a process in which the subject is recorded directly on light sensitive paper without using a camera. This image was taken during a performance in Arles called Dissolving of Bodies, in which life-size photograms of human figures were exposed to the elements. One was buried, another burned, a third flown on a kite and a fourth, shown here, immersed in the sea.
Gelatin silver print
Given by the photographer
V&A Museum no. E.82–2011(20-5-2015) |
| Credit line | Given by the photographer |
| Object history | Given by the photographer |
| Summary | Floris Neusüss has dedicated his career to extending the practice, study and teaching of experimental photography and the photogram. Alongside his practice as an artist, he is known as an influential writer and teacher, working as Professor in Experimental Photography, University of Kassel, Germany from 1971 until 2009. Since first exhibiting in the 1960s, he has consistently explored the photogram's numerous technical, conceptual and visual possibilities, resulting in works that range from the figurative to the abstract. |
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| Accession number | E.82-2011 |
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| Record created | July 12, 2011 |
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