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My Ghost

For Allegra

2014

Adam Fuss

(British, b. 1961)

England, 21st century

Daguerreotype

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.)

Alma Kroeger Fund 2018.297

© Adam Fuss

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Provenance
2014
Adam Fuss (the artist)
2018
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
December 3, 2018
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Fuss, Adam, and W. E. Begley. Adam Fuss: Circumambulation. 2015.
Tannenbaum, Barbara. “Acquisitions 2018: Photography.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 24-25. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 24.
Exhibition history

Adam Fuss, Circumambulation. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (December 26, 2014-February 6, 2015).

Retro-spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World. Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (September 24, 2016-January 8, 2017).

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.297