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.Text Entries
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 blacksmith Tom Joyce, the tool pictured in this image is a
wool shear. The photograph was received
framed and when unframed should be checked for inscriptions and other marks.
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 viewNorman Mauskopf
2004 (printed 2014)