The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

Water Glass #3 (Variant 2)

2011

Amanda Means

(American, b. 1948)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.); Mounted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
Gift of Amanda Means and Jayne H. Baum Gallery 2022.125
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

“Most photography represents the reflection of light back from an object’s surface,” explains Amanda Means.

Description

In her Water Glass series,Means photographs the light that passes through her subject: partially filled water glasses. To make these images, Means pointed a photographic enlarger at a large sheet of photographic paper tacked on the wall. She created a light-proof chamber with a powerful lamp at one end and the enlarger lens at the other and placed the water glass in it. This process yielded a large paper negative from which she makes prints.
  • ?-2022
    (Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY), given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    September 12, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.125