Untitled; In Between
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
USA, USA (probably, made)
- Date:
1994 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Adam Fuss, born 1961 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Gelatin silver print photogram
- Credit Line:
Gift of the artist, through the generosity of Pierre Brahm
- Museum number:
E.860-2010
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Adam Fuss was born in Britain and lives and works in New York. Having worked as a commercial photographer, he is conscious of what he calls "the pervasive technological- consumerist culture". In response to this, along with other artists of his generation such as Garry Fabian Miller and Susan Derges, he has returned to the simplest photographic means: photography without the use of a camera. Such procedures recall the earliest photographs of the 1830s and 1840s. This work was inspired by Fuss' visit to a Shaker community where he was impressed with their hand-built ladders. It also references William Blake's work 'I want, I want' showing a figure holding a ladder up to the stars, as well as the famous ladder in Henry Fox Talbot's 'The Haystack'. Imbued with a poignant sensibility, or the implication of transcendent aspirations, Fuss' works resound with metaphysical meaning.
