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Gordon Tapper, 1:10

Person in Photograph Gordon Tapper American
1999
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • 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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