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Zuma #20
Creator
John DivolaAmerican Photographer · 1949–present
All works by this person →> 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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0494443f-00a2-42b8-96af-3f31d84adafd
What the image shows
A burned wooden structure with a view of the ocean.
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From the Getty Museum record
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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