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Basement Camera Shop circa 1937

© Rodney Graham / Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Image credit: courtesy of Hauser & Wirth / The David and Indrė Roberts Collection

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The following is a short text of Rodney describing the work: 'This work is a reconstruction of a very small snapshot of the early 1930's – reputedly from the small town of Dauphin Manitoba, of a photo lab, perhaps in the basement of a department store in which the proprietor or an employee is seen at the front desk of the shop, writing. I found the image in a local antique store. I was interested in placing this image under intense scrutiny and to try to extrapolate from the minimal information carried in the small black and white contact print – no more than an inch and a half square – to create a work about the early flowering of snapshot photography.'

The Roberts Institute of Art

London

Title

Basement Camera Shop circa 1937

Date

2011

Medium

painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency

Measurements

H 182 x W 182 x D 17.7 cm

Accession number

GRRO-2011-01

Work type

Sculpture

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The Roberts Institute of Art

Unit 1, 2 Centric Close, London, Greater London NW1 7EP England

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