Adam Fuss - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Adam Fuss’s My Ghost series meditates on grief, spirituality, and remembrance. According to Fuss, the visual language of the project articulates ‘the emotional presence of a human that is now absent.’ To create the image offered here, Fuss utilized the historical camera-less technique of the photogram. In the darkroom, smoke was blown over a sheet of photographic paper which was then exposed by a flash of light. The resulting image freezes the plume in stasis, creating a unique image of an evanescent moment.

    • Provenance

      Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

    • Exhibited

      Light of Day, Transformer Station, Cleveland, 3 February - 4 May 2013
      Photo Fictions, Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron, 12 September - 22 October 2011

HIGH VOLTAGE: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRED AND LAURA BIDWELL

246

From the Series 'My Ghost'

1999
Unique gelatin silver print photogram.
15 3/4 x 12 in. (40 x 30.5 cm)
Signed in blue pencil on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the frame.

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Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $4,826

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Photographs

New York Auction 5 April 2024