Zuma #20

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Zuma #20

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John Divola

American Photographer · 1949–present

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> In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself; you can never make the equivalent of lying in a quarry at midnight, looking at the moon. . . . Beauty is part of the language of that. I want [my photographs] to be seductive, but they're also about an unattainable desire. > > --John Divola Although the physi

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Date
1978
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
0494443f-00a2-42b8-96af-3f31d84adafd

View of the ocean seen through the broken windows of a door. The frame of the door has been painted silver.

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