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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Spano, Michael Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1949 Biography: Michael Spano American, 1949-Michael Spano fuses the sociological intrigue of street photography with formal manipulations of the photographic medium to explore the urban environment and its inhabitants. Panoramic and sequential views, photograms, and solarized double exposures have all served as formats for his imagery. Born in New York City and educated at Queens College (B.A., 1976) and Yale University School of Art (M.F.A. in photography, 1978), Spano has been awarded a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1982), fellowships from the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation (1984) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1985), and an Art Matters Grant (1988). He has had one-person exhibitions at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (1984), the Memphis Brooks Museum (1988), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (1990). Spano lives in New York. A.W. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Bronx, NY Creator Name-CRT: Michael Spano Title: Fruit Cup Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1989 Creation End Date: 1989 Creation Date: 1989 Object Type: Photographs Classification Term: Photography Materials and Techniques: gelatin silver print Dimensions: Sheet: 121.7cm x 96.2cm, Image: 114.7cm x 89cm Inscriptions: Written in pencil on recto: "5-89 6/25 Michael Spano [signed] 89" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1989.470 Credit Line: Purchased with a grant from the NEA and matched by contributions from Museum members in 1989 Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: In the late 1980s, New York photographer Michael Spano began using an eight-lens fixed interval camera (the kind used to photograph golf swings) to take rapid, successive, automatic exposures. The eight lenses, stacked in two rows of four, are automatically triggered in sequence to expose a section of film at predetermined intervals of up to three seconds from the moment Spano presses the shutter release. The result is eight sequential images positioned next to one another on a single black-and-white negative that is then enlarged to a commanding 45 x 35 inches. In this print, twisting and turning the camera between each exposure, helped Spano obtain eight vertical, horizontal, and inverted images of two scenes he created: his wife holding and drinking a cup of coffee and a still-life arrangement of an oversized cup and saucer next to a bowl of pears. The final composition is intriguing, mysterious, and sometimes disorienting, as objects are shown from several angles at once. AMICA ID: CMA_.1989.470 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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