Gordon Tapper, 1:10
Sander created these Lilliputian figures by first recording her subjects in the round with sixteen digital cameras, then feeding the images into a machine designed for making models and prototypes. From this photographic matrix, the machine sprayed layers of plastic according to the shape of the person at 1:10 scale, which was then painted with an airbrush. The results are uncannily accurate portrayals of individual pose and gesture using the most modern of means-pocket doubles that refer obliquely to a possible future of clones and replicas.
Artwork Details
- Title: Gordon Tapper, 1:10
- Artist: Karin Sander (German, born 1957)
- Person in Photograph: Gordon Tapper (American)
- Date: 1999
- Medium: ABS plastic (acryl-nitryl-butadien-styrol) from three-dimensional scan; applied color
- Dimensions: 18 x 5.7 (dia.) cm (7 1/16 x 2 1/4 (dia.) in.)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Anonymous Gifts, 2000
- Object Number: 2000.411
- Rights and Reproduction: © 1999 Karin Sander
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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