Guest 12:38 pm 8th November 1996 (MB)

1996

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

To create this curious, luminous picture, Christopher 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 thousands of images simultaneously. Together these tiny images of the sun join like atoms to form a larger body—in this case, a human figure, which happens to be the visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. According to Bucklow, he will only photograph a "Guest" if he has dreamt about them, explaining that these bodies represent sub-selves and that "one’s friends are psychologically significant mirrors of one’s own interior."

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Guest 12:38 pm 8th November 1996 (MB)
Artist: Christopher Bucklow (British, born 1957)
Date: 1996
Medium: Silver dye bleach print
Dimensions: Sheet: 38 × 28 in. (96.5 × 71.1 cm)
Frame: 38 1/2 × 28 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (97.8 × 72.7 × 4.1 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
Curatorial Department: Photographs