Zuma #41

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Zuma #41

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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: 1977
Medium: Chromogenic print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Interior of an abandoned beach house. A dirty white sofa is in the center of the room and is missing its cushions. A book has been thrown in the air above the sofa and is suspended, pages flapping. Tattered curtains hang from the broken windows, which look out to the ocean.

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