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Series Title: My Ghost

For Allegra

2014

Adam Fuss

(British, b. 1961)
Culture
England, 21st century
Medium
daguerreotype
Measurements
Plate: 59.7 x 96.5 cm (23 1/2 x 38 in.); Framed: 73 x 109.9 x 4.4 cm (28 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Alma Kroeger Fund 2018.297
Copyright
© Adam Fuss
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

To distract himself from a romantic breakup, Adam Fuss decided to make the world’s largest daguerreotype.

Description

This depiction of the Taj Mahal—a monument to a lost love—was produced in 2014 but is based on an 1864 view by British photographer John Murray. Fuss scanned and photoshopped Murray’s paper negative to produce his own homage to a lost love, using one of the oldest photographic processes, the daguerreotype. It is Fuss's monument to his lost love, Allegra.

For Allegra

2014

Adam Fuss

(British, b. 1961)
England, 21st century

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