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Blanks I
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When I Was a Mirage
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Blanks I, 2010


Daguerreotypes--the first publically availalbe photographic process--were known for their capacity to delineate the world with incredible detail and clarity. Yet when viewed from an oblique angle, its image flickers and disappears, leaving barely a trace of the subject it once revealed. 

Blanks I consists of photographs of Mathew Brady Studio daguerreotypes that Long re-photographed at the New-York Historical Society.  They record the daguerreotypes in their failed, empty states.

"He showed us yesterday a great number of his Daguerreotypes in all the varied states--where the light was first darkness and then in the next state after lying by some time in the dark turns to light and then where it all fades away and seeming leaves no trace behind--and then when upon certain incantations or applications it all returns."

-Maria Edgeworth, Letter to M. Pakenham Edgeworth, November 26, 1843

Blanks I, no. 2 (Mathew Brady daguerreotype), framed C-Print on Kodak Metallic Paper, 10 x 8 inches, 2010
Blanks I, no. 1 (Mathew Brady daguerreotype), framed C-Print on Kodak Metallic Paper, 10 x 8 inches, 2010
Blanks I, no. 3 (Mathew Brady daguerreotype), framed C-Print on Kodak Metallic Paper, 10 x 8 inches, 2010
Blanks I, no. 4 (Mathew Brady daguerreotype), framed C-Print on Kodak Metallic Paper, 10 x 8 inches, 2010

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