Adam Füss's Pinhole Photography Explores Light and Biology
British photographer Adam Füss abandoned the 35mm camera to return to photography's origins, using a pinhole camera, one of the earliest image-recording techniques. His images of statues, partly due to the nature of his equipment, possess a spectral, haunted quality evoking a distant past. From 1988, he began creating abstract studies exploring the potential of light and color, then moved into a strange and wonderful world of craters, valleys, tides, and constellations. In the early 1990s, he produced a series of biological studies ranging from plants to rabbit entrails.
Key facts
- Adam Füss is a British photographer.
- He rejected the 35mm camera for a pinhole camera.
- His images of statues have a spectral, haunted quality.
- He started abstract studies of light and color in 1988.
- He later explored craters, valleys, tides, and constellations.
- In the early 1990s, he created biological studies of plants and rabbit entrails.
- The pinhole camera is one of the earliest photographic techniques.
- The article was published in artpress in July 1993.
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Artists
- Adam Füss
Institutions
- artpress
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