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The Artist Project: Adam Fuss

Dec 7, 2015 3 MINUTES
"She's saying goodbye to the world, and isn't that masterful of an artist to capture that reluctance?"

Adam Fuss reflects on a marble grave stele of a little girl in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Adam Fuss, born in 1961 in London, is a British photographer.

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Ark, 2004

Daguerreotype; image: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm), frame: 21 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (54.6 x 47 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2006. (2006.171) © Adam Fuss

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