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My Ghost

For Allegra

2014
(British, b. 1961)
England, 21st century
daguerreotype
Plate: 59.7 x 96.5 cm (23 1/2 x 38 in.); Framed: 73 x 109.9 x 4.4 cm (28 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Alma Kroeger Fund 2018.297
© Adam Fuss
Location: not on view
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To distract himself from a romantic breakup, Adam Fuss decided to make the world’s largest daguerreotype.

Description

This depiction of the Taj Mahal—a monument to a lost love—was produced in 2014 but is based on an 1864 view by British photographer John Murray. Fuss scanned and photoshopped Murray’s paper negative to produce his own homage to a lost love, using one of the oldest photographic processes, the daguerreotype. It is Fuss's monument to his lost love, Allegra.
For Allegra

For Allegra

2014

Adam Fuss

(British, b. 1961)
England, 21st century

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