Fuss, Adam. My
ghost. (Photographs by Adam Fuss in silver gelatin, platinum-palladium,
and daguerreotype made between 1995 and 2001. With texts by Arseny
Tarkovsky, Neville Wakefield and Leonid Aranzone). Sante Fe, N.M., Twin
Palms Publishers (2002). Folio (38 x 30 cm.). [50] p. with 26 tritone
and 4 color plates. OLn. mit illustr. OU.
Erste Ausgabe. – „We’re so
conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don’t realize that we
are running on only half the visual alphabet….It’s what we see every day
in the magazines, on billboards, and even on television. All those
images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a
camera. I’m saying there are many, many other ways to produce
photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to
be explored.“ – Adam Fuss – A nineteenth-century child’s dress is
carefully laid out for our viewing. Perhaps, because we are aware that
it is a part of lost time, our thoughts go to its missing inhabitant—an
ethereal presence, intricate to the weave of the fabric before us. And
then there are the birds, scattering in a grey photographic dusk,
soundless. Now, the mirrored surfaces of the daguerreotypes flicker
before us, never completely giving up their secrets. In this body of
work the artist essays loss and its attendant ghosts“ (Neville
Wakefield). – Sehr gutes Exemplar.
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