Zuma #19

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Zuma #19

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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
1977
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
eb063fe0-eefb-4d02-b758-a6e04959b445

A wall with a large window looking into a second room. The second room has windows with views of the ocean. The wall in the foreground is black, possibly from fire damage, and has silver dots spray-painted near the ceiling.

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