ADAM FUSS

Michael Lounello
BACKGROUND ADAM FUSS
Born: 1961 in London
Based: New York City (since 1982)
Techniques;
Photograms
Aphotogramis a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface
of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light.
Pinhole Photography
APinhole Camerais a simplecamerawithout a lens but with a tiny aperture, apinhole.Light from a scene
passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is
known as thecameraobscura effect.
Daguerreotype
To make the image, a daguerreotypist would polish a sheet ofsilver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat
it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive,expose it in acamerafor as long as was judged to be
necessary; make the resultingimageon it visible by fuming it withmercuryvapor; remove its sensitivity to
light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the result behind glass in a protective
enclosure.
PHOTOGRAMS
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
DAGUERREOTYPE
WATER
MY GHOST
SNAKES
LOVE
BOOKS
Pinhole photographs
1996
Adam Fuss
1997
Mask
2005
Adam Fuss: 27 January-17 April 2011
2010
AWARDS
Sixteenth Annual ICP Infinity Award for Art
2000
To bring public attention to outstanding achievements in
photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in
the field and by identifying future luminaries".

Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society

2016
Awarded in recognition of any invention, research, publication or
other contribution which has resulted in an important advance in
the scientific or technological development of photography or
imaging in the widest sense.
IMITATION

Fuss, Adam. My Ghost Metropolitan Museum of Art,

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/284022.
PIN HOLE TEST
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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