Artist
Floris M. NeusüssGerman, 1937–2020
CultureGerman
Titles
- Lightbulbs, Munich
- Glühbirnen, München
Date1964
PlaceMunich, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print, photogram
DimensionsImage: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)
Mount: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)
Mount: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (28.3 × 36.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1721
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Photograms are created by placing objects on photographic paper and exposing the arrangement to light. For the experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss, however, the process captured more than the shadows of the subjects, it captured the elemental relationship between the objects and the paper. Neusüss noted, "This intimate physical connection inscribes into the paper, and this, if you are open to it, is the real fascination of photograms: the tension between the hidden and the revealed."
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left: ‘[illegible]’ // Munich 1964
Inscribed in red pencil, verso, upper right: I
Inscribed in red pencil, verso, upper center: o ?
Stamped in purple, verso, center upside down: neusüss // fotografi [in rectangle]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: [arrow pointing up] // TOP
Inscribed in red pencil, verso, upper right: I
Inscribed in red pencil, verso, upper center: o ?
Stamped in purple, verso, center upside down: neusüss // fotografi [in rectangle]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: [arrow pointing up] // TOP
Unsigned
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