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Darryl Curran
American,
b. 1935
Ghosts
1976
Van dyke print
28.125 x 24.125 in.
Gift of the artist and The Museum Project
2016.20
Some people believe photographs can capture the paranormal; Ghosts is artist LA-based artist Darryl Curran’s attempt to recreate this phenomenon. Using a double-exposed vintage family negative, Curran creates a ghostly effect intended to shock. A master of experimental techniques, Curran’s double exposure includes a bust resembling Abraham Lincoln in a nod to a famous “spirit photograph” taken in 1872 that seemed to show the ghost of the assassinated president standing behind his grieving widow, Mary Todd.
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- coastlines - Generally used either for the lines forming boundaries between land and sea or specifically for the lines reached by the highest storm waves or the high-water marks of median tides; for strips of land bordering any large bodies of water, use "shores (landforms)."
- humans
- ocean
- rock - Naturally formed aggregate of one or more minerals. For processed or dressed rock use "stone."
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Shrubs
- Sources:
- 2012505470: Correa A., M.D. Árboles y arbustos del Parque Natural Metropolitano, Panamá, 2010.
- Merriam-Webster unabridged, via WWW, Mar. 28, 2013
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Sky Above, Earth Below A History of Western Landscape Photography , 9/14/2019 - 7/31/2020
- Sky Above, Earth Below A History of Western Landscape Photography , 9/14/2019 - 7/31/2020
- SAEB Audio Tour , 2/2/2021 - 12/17/2021
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