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Series Title: Metamorphoses

Atropa

c. 2019

Anderson & Low

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Culture
America
Medium
salt print
Credit Line
The Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 2007 Trust 2024.45.9
Copyright
© Anderson & Low
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Location
Not on view
Print
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These 21st century images were inspired by photographs taken through a microscope by nineteenth-century British photographer Frederick Evans.

Description

Evans’s fascination with form and visionary translation of common natural objects resonated with Anderson & Low. They decided to rework images from their Chrysalis series, in which they used digital technology to transform earlier analog architectural views into large-scale, exuberantly patterned, and colored abstract images. In contrast, the Metamorphoses are delicate monochromatic images—intimately scaled salt prints, a complex printing process devised in the mid-1830s.
A square salt print depicts a monochromatic composition with radial symmetry. A bright six-pointed star is centered within a dark hexagon, surrounded by soft, jagged rays in light gray. These radiate outward in overlapping layers to form a larger star pattern. The outermost layer consists of shaded angular forms set against a solid dark background. The print features a grainy texture with soft, diffused edges.

Atropa

c. 2019

Anderson & Low

America

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