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Zuma #14
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
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- negative 1978; print 1982
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 22789d24-7b8d-44a5-87aa-7d887609d81b
Interior of a room badly damaged by fire. The ceiling is missing in spots and the floor is covered in debris. Wood beams, painted silver, hang down from the remnants of the roof. A door with broken windows looks out to the ocean.
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