Dusk
Peter Campus
American, born 1937
1991
A gelatin-silver print made from a digital photograph in which Peter Campus stages a drooping cluster of blossoms like a lit theatrical subject to explore how light and framing shape perception.
You’re struck by a floating, spotlighted mass of delicate petals and seedpods set against a grainy, shadowed background, where a slanted, rain‑like texture and soft edges turn a botanical still life into a cinematic, mysterious fragment.
By making a digital capture that is realized as a traditional gelatin silver print, Campus bridges new and old photographic processes and extends his ongoing inquiry into mediated vision, contributing to late‑20th‑century experiments that blur documentary clarity and staged artifice.
Medium
Digital photograph; gelatin silver print
Dimensions
18 11/16 × 22 13/16" (47.5 × 58 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
2.1992
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