Artist: Adam Fuss
Butterfly from the series "My Ghost"
Daguerreotype7 X 5 inches
Adam Fuss' work is known for its contemporary re- interpretation of photography’s earliest techniques, particularly the daguerreotype and the camera-less photogram. Fuss states that in "order for any photographic technique to work, it should be personalized and transfigured into a greater metaphor, engaging processes that take place in the natural world." This particular picture captures this statement because the butterfly represents natural world, life, and beauty! The metaphor that i get in this image is "beauty is within, beauty is transparent" because people in our culture see beauty "outside" of something or someone versus looking inside deep within. His photography is unique and metaphoric. (:
I love work that is metaphoric, i like to use my creative side to figure things out or tell a story. I find his work intriguing in a sense that I want to figure out the message he is trying to portray.
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