Art Sets.

Camera Camera

By Jeremias Zylberberg

The Dark Chamber

The age of the iPhone has made it easy to forget the meaning of the word 'Camera' which means chamber, or vault.

"..a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." - Susan Sontag

AGNSW collection Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion - An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Plate 574. "Hansel" walking, free [Vol. 9 Horses] 1885-1886
AGNSW collection Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion - An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Plate 574. "Hansel" walking, free [Vol. 9 Horses] 1885-1886
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/236.1989.3/

"..a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." - Susan Sontag

AGNSW collection Ansel Adams Sierra Nevada near Lone Pine 1944
AGNSW collection Ansel Adams Sierra Nevada near Lone Pine 1944
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/144.2004/

Adams

AGNSW collection David Stephenson Stars #1008 1995
AGNSW collection David Stephenson Stars #1008 1995
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/408.1997/

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AGNSW collection Adam Fuss from the series My ghost 2001
AGNSW collection Adam Fuss from the series My ghost 2001
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/236.2002.1/

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AGNSW collection Wynn Bullock Half an apple 1953, printed later
AGNSW collection Wynn Bullock Half an apple 1953, printed later
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/222.1977/

Things.

AGNSW collection Fiona Hall Leura, New South Wales 1974
AGNSW collection Fiona Hall Leura, New South Wales 1974
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/227.1981/

Temporal..

AGNSW collection Sugimoto Hiroshi Bass Strait, Table Cape 1997
AGNSW collection Sugimoto Hiroshi Bass Strait, Table Cape 1997
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/370.1997/

Art Set by Jerry Zylberberg

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