Sunburned GSP #428 (Sunset, Sunrise, Arctic Circle, Alaska)
Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #428 (Sunset, Sunrise, Arctic Circle, Alaska), 2010, unique gelatin silver paper negatives, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Photography Council, © Chris McCaw, 2011.1.1a-c
This work is on view.
- Title
Sunburned GSP #428 (Sunset, Sunrise, Arctic Circle, Alaska)
- Artist
- Date
2010
- Medium
unique gelatin silver paper negatives
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
each sheet: 24 in x 20 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Photography Council
- Accession Number
2011.1.1a-c
- Copyright
© Chris McCaw
- Terms
- Location
McCaw’s works merge nineteenth-century photographic technology with an abstract modern sensibility. The artist builds his own oversized view cameras, complete with high-powered military lenses, to accommodate large sheets of lightsensitive paper that serve as both negative and final print. He exposes each sheet of paper in the camera for many hours, allowing the sunlight that passes through the lens to mark—and even burn through—these one-of-a-kind pictures.
This three-print image, produced in the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice, traces the elegant arc of the sun as it crosses the sky, almost sinking below the horizon before rising once again during one of the longest days of the year.
- Exhibitions
2012 Emerging: New Photography Acquisitions Portland Art Museum
2014 Dusk Through Dawn: Photography at the Edges of Daylight Portland Art Museum
2016 Photography and Contemporary Experience Portland Art Museum
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum
