White Heat #1
Artist
Laurie Tümer
(American, born 1951)
Date1994
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Laurie Tümer, 2016
Object number2016.9.6
DescriptionA vertical composition with the three outlines of a blacksmithing tools, upright and side-by-side with slight overlap, ascending slightly toward the right.Text Entries
While
living in El Rito, a small community in northern New Mexico, the artist lived
near the blacksmith Michael Hennerty and borrowed some of his tools to make
photograms (cameraless photographs). The ghostly forms created by the tools
reminded him of how they look when they are “at white heat” in the forge, intensely heated and almost transparent, and
that phrase became the title of the series.
The photograph is a unique
photogram made with tools from the blacksmith Michael Hennerty who was a
neighbor of the artist when she lived in El Rito, New Mexico. The series title
refers to the point at which the tools are “at white heat” in the forge,
intensely heated and almost transparent. The series includes nine unique
prints. According to artist and blacksmith Tom Joyce, the tool pictured in this
image is a brush hook. The photograph was received
framed and when unframed should be checked for inscriptions and other marks.
On View
Not on viewNorman Mauskopf
2004 (printed 2014)