ADAM FUSS(English, born 1961)from the series, ‘My Ghost’, 2001Unique gelatin silver print photogram mounted on muslin88 3/4 x 58 3/4 x 2" (225.4 x 149.2 x 5 cm.)Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund , 2002Adam Fuss made this work with little more than smoke and light. It is a type of photograph, called a photogram, which is made without a camera. Fuss has been exploring early photographic processes and camera-less photography for many years. To make a photogram, light sensitive paper is placed behind an object which, when exposed to light, results in a shadowy image. In this piece, he has captured the ephemeral tendrils of a swirling cloud of smoke in a one-of-a-kind print.
This image is part of a series called "My Ghost," which this British-born photographer began in 1999. The series, as with all of Fuss’s work, is about life and death, birth, love and loss. It is his personal meditation on grief. In this quietly intimate series, pictures of smoke, christening gowns, butterflies, and flying birds give visible and metaphorical form to the intangible spiritual presence of a deceased person. So, in a sense, this elegant image of passing smoke can be read as a symbolic embodiment of a human soul.
- Jennifer Bayles, Educator for Special Projects
Adam Fuss artist, NY
(intervied in 1999 at Fotomuseum Winterthur by Tim Otto Roth)
The aesthetic of me not being there
One doesn't have complete controle over the individual picture in the way one steps back. The force that makes the picture, the actual construction of the picture is not made by the hand it is made by the law of nature, the form that the nature takes. But one creates the situation that allows to take place. So there is a great degree of taken the helm. But there is also a situation where it is beyond, it is like another world. So there is no way you can do that. I like the aesthetic of me not being there, of the being no helm, of the looking like that there is no one there...
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