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- October 22 -

Details from Thierry W Despont’s tapestries, woven from Italian cotton with cotton viscose and metallic threads. From top: NB 03-T (detail), NB 09-T (detail) and NB 17-T. All 81 x 149 in, 2010.
Here below, photogram and exhibition view from Lisa Oppenheim’s Lunagrams (1851/2010), a series of photograms negatives depicting a lunar phase from 1851 illuminated by moonlight of the same lunar phase in 2010. The source images are glass negatives taken by John William Draper, who was the first to photograph the moon.





John William Draper’s son, Henry, took this photo ten years later.