The Artist Project: Adam Fuss

Photographer Adam Fuss reflects on a marble grave stele of a little girl in this episode of The Artist Project.

December 7, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"She's saying goodbye to the world, and isn't that masterful of an artist to capture that reluctance?"

Adam Fuss reflects on a marble grave stele of a little girl in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Adam Fuss, born in 1961 in London, is a British photographer.

A photogram of concentric waves formed by a droplet of water spreading across the liquid surface of the metal daguerreotype plate.

Adam Fuss (British, born 1961)

Ark, 2004

Daguerreotype; image: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm), frame: 21 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (54.6 x 47 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2006. (2006.171) © Adam Fuss