Christopher Bucklow
Guest [S.D.] 25,000 Solar Images

Guest [S.D.] 25,000 Solar Images

© Christopher Bucklow

Guest [S.D.] 25,000 Solar Images
Guest [S.D.] 25,000 Solar Images
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Guest [S.D.] 25,000 Solar Images
Date4:17 P.M., October 9, 1994
MediumSilver dye bleach print, photogram
DimensionsImage: 39 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (101 × 75.6 cm)
Sheet: 39 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (101 × 75.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 1995 and by Jay Branson in honor of Pampa Risso-Patrón
Object number95.413
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

What you see in
this photograph, says Christopher Bucklow, “is a blue sky with thousands of
suns—a sky where all the suns swarm together to form a human constellation.” Guest
is made with an unusual pinhole camera; instead of a single pinhole for its
aperture, Bucklow’s apparatus is “a homemade giant” with more than 25,000
pinholes. The artist explains, “By using the shadow-silhouette of my models, I
arrange the apertures so that the solar images fall into the shape of the
figure, and each sun looks like a glowing cell.”




Provenance[Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art LLC, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.

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