Susan Derges
Shoreline, May 18, 1998

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Artist Susan Derges(British, born 1955)British, born 1955

CultureBritish

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Shoreline, May 18, 1998

DateMay 18, 1998

MediumSilver dye bleach prints, photogram

DimensionsOverall: 40 1/2 × 289 1/2 in. (102.9 × 735.3 cm)
Image (.A): 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Sheet (.A): 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Image (.B): 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Sheet: 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Image (.C): 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Sheet (.C): 40 1/4 × 96 in. (102.2 × 243.8 cm)
Frame (outer) (each): 40 1/2 × 96 5/16 in. (102.9 × 244.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim, Nina and Michael Zilkha, Sanford and Susie Criner, and the artist, in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker

Object number2004.1193.A,.B,.C

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAfter scouting a beach location and studying weather conditions, lunar
phases, and wave patterns, Susan Derges unfolded three large sheets of
photographic paper in the dark at the water’s edge and fired a bank of strobes
just as a small wave broke. Her photographic paper not only recorded the
complex forms and patterns of water, but also the colors of cool ambient
moonlight and warmer streetlights bouncing off the clouds and back to earth.
For Derges, these images, made without a camera, speak of water and light as
essential elements for life.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.

“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.
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Printed back label: "Susan Derges, / The Wesleyan Chapel, / South Zeal, / Okehampton, / Devon. EX20 2LA / Tel/Fax: 01837 840 174 / E-mail susand @ freeuk.com"

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