| Dates: | 1961 - | | Born: | UK, London | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
Has used a wide variety of styles, commercial advertising, abandoned buildings, pinhole photography of statues at night in the Metropolitan Museum and color photograms.Preparing biographies
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 1830's and 1840's. In Fuss’s work, light is used as a metaphor to illuminate the processes and stages of human life.
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Date last updated: 11 Nov 2011.
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In the gap between photography’s metaphorical and representational capabilities, Fuss utilizes photograms, pinhole cameras, and daguerreotypes to mine the margins of what makes up a photographic image. Dealing with themes of life, death, and protracted time, Fuss transcends his organic subject matter, including animal entrails, flowers, plants, smoke, and water, and infuses them with a spiritual, post-modern amalgam comprised of the inner and outter worlds. Relying on the medium’s basic components — the interplay of light and objects with light-sensitive material — Fuss’ prolonged expoures produce unique images that both capture and transcend reality while evoking the unseeable.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
General reading
Barnes, Martin, 2010, Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography, (Merrell Publishers) isbn-10: 1858945380 isbn-13: 978-1858945385 [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Parry, Eugenia, 1997, Adam Fuss, (Santa Fe: Arena Editions) [Δ]
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