Suzette Bross

This portrait, made using a flatbed scanner as the camera, engages in a dialogue between contemporary technology and the early days of photography. The two-minute exposure time and shallow depth of field harken back to the limitations of the first photographic processes. Unlike the small-scale of historic images, Bross prints her image larger than life-size, enhancing the tension between the photograph’s intimacy and its simultaneous sense of distance.

Bross used friends and family as the models for this series.

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The title of this portrait series is “For the Glass,” referring to early glass plate photographs. 

For the Glass

The artist says: “Although a scanner is not necessarily the most cutting-edge technology, it is something with which we are all familiar.”

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Suzette Bross

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