Zuma #27

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Zuma #27

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John Divola

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
1978
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
d7654ff7-f030-4632-b31c-56bc737e2702

Interior of an abandoned house with a large window looking out to the ocean. The walls and floor of the room are damaged and vandalized. A blue "V" has been spray-painted against white on the wall next to the window.

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