Figur auf Weiss
Photograph
Figur auf Weiss
[Figure on White]
1965
Gelatin silver photogram on reversal paper
Frame: 213.5 × 106.4 cm (84 1/16 × 41 7/8 in.)
Purchase
1977.0684.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed on BC of recto: Floris Michael Neusüss / München / 1965
Inscribed on BC of verso: F.M. Neusüss / 15 Menzelstrasse / Kassel / West - Germany
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Inscribed on BC of verso: F.M. Neusüss / 15 Menzelstrasse / Kassel / West - Germany
2 [circled]
TextAn artist drawn to experimentation, Floris Neusüss began making Körperfotogramms (body photograms) in the mid-1960s. Like traditional photograms, their production did not involve a camera or lens; however, instead of placing objects directly onto photographic paper, Neusüss convinced friends (usually women) to perform movements in the nude as he intermittently exposed the light-sensitive paper beneath them by switching the lights on and off. These life-size figural renderings, often called “Nudograms,” signaled his conception of photography as a sensual, performative act and the photograph as the tangible outcome of it.
