Guest
To create this picture, Bucklow photographed the sun using a multiple pinhole camera constructed from a cardboard box. The apertures, punched out in a pattern, allowed him to make numerous, often thousands, of images simultaneously. Together, like atoms, these tiny images of the sun join to form a larger body--in this case, a luminous human figure, which happens to be the artist himself.
Artwork Details
- Title: Guest
- Artist: Christopher Bucklow (British, born 1957)
- Date: 1995
- Medium: Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions: 100.6 x 76.2 cm. (39 5/8 x 30 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.47
- Rights and Reproduction: © Christopher Bucklow
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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