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Adam Fuss was born in London, England in 1961. From his childhood, spent in lush countryside surroundings, he had an intense relationship with nature and explored science to understand the world around him. Fuss turned to photography as a bridge from the world of science to the world of image. He moved to New York City in 1982, where he lives and works. His work is in prestigious collections across the globe, such as those of the George Eastman House, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and MOMA. What is Man by Andrew Roth and Adam Fuss, and My Ghost, Daguerreotypes from the Series, by Adam Fuss, Andrew Roth & Jerry kelly have featured his work. In 1997, Arena Editions Published a monograph of his work, Adam Fuss, with a critical essay by Eugenia Parry. Images in this article were provided by Cheim & Read Gallery in NY City.
Direct Impressions – A Language of Light No Less Rich
Adam Fuss I would say that the lens is a manipulation of an image. To me the photogram is a non-manipulation of the object and the interaction of the object with light and the direct recording of that. To me that’s pure photographic imagery. As soon as you have a lens, you’re reinterpreting the outside world. That’s it. Those are the glasses you’ve got on. That’s your rose tinted glass. It is not a great analogy, but the idea that every painter used a number 12 squirrel head brush and painted with a box of paint and everyone used the same box. That’s what most photography is. It’s pulling out of this extremely limited range, because the equipment has such a strong fingerprint and in that fingerprint you can see most modern photography. Whether it is your father or Helmut Newton. The difference in the equipment is not extreme. The vision is extreme. But because the equipment isn’t that different, there is something that shares a sameness in those images.
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