Christopher Bucklow
Guest, 25,000 Solar Images [AF], 5:03 pm, 10th October 1995

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Artist Christopher Bucklow (British, born 1957)British, born 1957

CultureBritish

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Guest, 25,000 Solar Images [AF], 5:03 pm, 10th October 1995

Date1995

MediumSilver dye bleach print, photogram

DimensionsSheet (Visible): 38 1/2 × 28 3/4 in. (97.8 × 73 cm)
Frame: 40 × 30 1/4 × 2 in. (101.6 × 76.8 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2002, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.2990

Not on view

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Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionWhat 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 explained, “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[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"The Artist’s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 5 March - 2 June 2013.

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

Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower right: "'Guest' / 5.03 pm 10th October 1995 / CB"

Label, verso of frame: "FRAENKEL GALLERY / 49 GEARY STREET SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA 94108-5730 / CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW / Guest [A.F.] 5:03 pm / 10th October 1995 / cibachrome print / 40 x 30 / signed, titled & dated / verso in pencil"

Inscribed in pencil, verso of frame, lower right: "CB.0153.y"

Signed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower right.

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