White Heat #8
Artist
Laurie Tümer
(American, born 1951)
Date1994
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 7/8 × 20 in. (40.3 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Laurie Tümer, 2016
Object number2016.9.9
DescriptionA horizontal composition with six outlines of blacksmithing tools stretching across the width of the sheet. The tool has a broad blade at the top with a thin handle and an open ring at the bottom.eMuseum Notes
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.
On View
Not on view
Norman Mauskopf
2004 (printed 2014)