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Light Leaks Variation No. 4 [+(3 seconds x 13) + - (3 seconds x 13): meditation on dawn]
Artist
Erika Blumenfeld
(American, born 1971)
Date1999
Medium65 4x5 inch Type 54 Polaroid film, wood panel, archival adhesive and Plexiglas box
DimensionsFrame: 25 1/8 × 50 5/8 in. (63.8 × 128.6 cm)
Image: 24 3/4 × 50 1/2 in. (62.9 × 128.3 cm)
Image: 24 3/4 × 50 1/2 in. (62.9 × 128.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Ronald Swanson, 2008
Object number2008.48
DescriptionFive rows of black squares; bottom two rows have white along the top and bottom edgeeMuseum Notes
Erika Blumenfeld conceives of her art as a sustained exploration over time of light and environmental phenomena. She has taken photography and distilled it to its absolute essence, "light writing," by recording light in varying degrees to create sublime and minimal works. She beautifully balances art and technology and Minimalism and politics, and she pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium-moving now, very successfully, into video. Some of her earliest Light Recordings, such as this one, were done with Polaroid Type 54 film.
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Erika Blumenfeld
2009 (printed 2010)
Betty Hahn
1977 (scanned and printed 2012)
