The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Canon AE1

2016–17

Kent Krugh

(American, b. 1955)
America
inkjet print
Gift of the Artist 2019.303
© Kent Krugh
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The Canon AE-1 was the first single lens reflex camera to incorporate a microprocessor.

Description

By shooting the camera with a linear accelerator x-ray machine, Kent Krugh grants us access to the insides of the camera, a place we usually know only through intellect and imagination. He processes the raw X-ray, which is white on black, through Photoshop to reverse its values. This diminishes the X-ray’s ghostly aspects and emphasizes instead a relationship to printed diagrams.
  • Kent Krugh (the artist)
    December 2, 2019
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kent Krugh, Speciation: Still a Camera, Albuquerque NM: Fraction Editions, 2018, with text by A.D. Coleman and Barbara Tannenbaum.
  • {{cite web|title=Canon AE1|url=false|author=Kent Krugh|year=2016–17|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.303