Zuma #29

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Zuma #29

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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: negative 1978; print 1982
Medium: Dye imbibition print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Interior of a house damaged by fire. Debris covers the floors and the ceiling has been painted with dots. A blue "V" has been painted on one corner of the room between large broken windows.

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