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Since 1985, the photographs of British-born, New York-based artist Adam Fuss have been made primarily without a camera. While technology has facilitated a trend toward large digitally enhanced color photographs, Fuss, who also works in a large scale, makes images pared down to the most essential elements of the medium—light and paper. Frequently referred to as a contemporary master of the sun print photogram, Fuss creates images by positioning objects directly onto a photographic medium and then exposing the whole to light, a process that evolved under the influence of the Bauhaus innovators in the early 20th century.
For many years, Fuss worked on a series entitled My Ghost, an evocative reference with spiritual associations realized in such images as christening gowns, transparent and absent the warmth of the intended wearer or columns of smoke captured during their brief existence.
While his subjects are recognizable and often familiar, their associations are often metaphysical and emotional.