Drugstore and Street; feature film, “The Great Gift.” –Stage #12

Robert Cumming American

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For six months in 1977, Cumming photographed everyday on the sound stages and back lots of Universal Studios. Also a painter, he was known at that moment for technically assured, spatially ambiguous view-camera photographs of quirky, jerry-built tabletop constructions made in the studio. At Universal, however, Cumming found a humming, ready-made factory of hand-crafted illusionism that inspired his greatest photographs.

Drugstore and Street; feature film, “The Great Gift.” –Stage #12, Robert Cumming (American, Worcester, Massachusetts 1943–2021 Desert Hot Springs, California), Gelatin silver print

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