Floris M. Neusüss
Bin gleich zurück

© Floris M. Neusüss The data on our contact sheet is probably not up-to-date. Attached is a word document with some low-res versions of the works, including the verso views of the sheets which take up an entire page because of the small font. This would be the information we would need reviewed. I will probably put you in touch with our photography cataloger, Jason Dibly, if that is OK. Once this gets straightened out, I will make sure that our image records reflect the true information from you. Please take a cursory glance at this document and let me know if I should bring Jason into the conversation at this point. Best,

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Artist Floris M. NeusüssGerman, 1937–2020

CultureGerman

Titles

Bin gleich zurück
Be right back

Date1984

PlaceGermany

MediumGelatin silver print, photogram, with wood chair

DimensionsSheet: 42 × 77 in. (106.7 × 195.6 cm)
Overall (chair): 33 7/8 × 19 × 17 in. (86 × 48.3 × 43.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 1991

Object number91.1769.A,.B

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionSome of the earliest images made by humans were handprints and stencils left on the walls of caves in France and Spain. The desire to leave a direct impression, a mark that indicates “I was here,” has been one of the most durable currents of art-making across time. Floris Neusüss extends this focus on the human body, with a twist. In the darkroom, he posed a subject on a chair sitting on photographic paper, then exposed the arrangement to light to create a photogram of the cast shadows. Now the body is conspicuously absent; the human subject of the photograph may or may not “be right back,” but its trace remains like Peter Pan’s living, disembodied shadow.
Provenance[Benteler Morgan Galleries, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Past/Present: Photography from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 8, 1991–February 9, 1992.

"Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31–November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Artist's signature, title, and date, in pencil on verso of photogram.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

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