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Zuma #21
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 1977; print 1982
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d534fed8-096b-447a-8637-73b10853e0b5
A corner of a room with broken windows. Shards of glass, painted red with silver dots, remain in the corners of the window. The windows look out to the ocean with a pink sky.
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