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Image

Adam Fuss, My Ghost (Butterfly Daguerreotype), 2001

Height 61cm x Width 50.8cm

Silver coated copper plates

this print has been displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London under the exhibtion of The Shadow Catchers 13th Oct 2010 - 20th Feb 2011, where five interbationall visual artists show their skills and techniques through camera-less photography. the space consiits of separate rooms for each artist as well as five four minture films on a loop, of the image makers demonstrating their techniques, glancing around their studios and sharing their creative ideas and inspirations.

Process

Fuss has been adopting a process that first developed in the 1830s by Louis J. M. Daguerre. The silver coated copper plates are exposed to iodine vapors to form light sensitive silver iodine. The image then develops using mercury fumes and then fixed in a warm solution of sodium chloride. The metallic surface creates a mirror finish when polished that is most noticeable on the areas with the least amount of light exposure. However the image was intentionally over exposed to achieve such a bright, vivid shimmering hue. The art of such a unique technique is slowly fading due to technological advancement and the highly toxic chemicals.

Context of Work

Fuss’s fascination of wanting to discover the unseen, is demonstrated by his simplistic symbolism and metaphorical meanings. He aims for his audience to question the formations in his pieces, which evoke spiritual elements and universal themes of life and death.

TIME

our new topic was described to us
create an image which relate to the theme
time
be gan drafting ideas such as
moments, speed, clocks, change