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Mathew Brady’s Skylight
Mathew Brady’s Skylight
Rearranging Canon Balls
Blanks I
Blanks II
Visiting Cards
Everyone I Owe

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Flash + Cube (1965-1975)
When I Was a Mirage
Removing James Franco 

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Brady Studio Floor Patterns, 2013

Floor Patterns begins with the small patches of flooring visible in Mathew Brady’s studio portraits—cross-hatched linoleum, patterned carpets, zig-zag brickwork. Long scans and colorizes these fragments, printing them on Kodak metallic paper and mounting them on aluminum, creating images that shift as the viewer moves, echoing the reflective instability of a daguerreotype.

While researching Brady’s various Broadway studios, Long used these floor coverings as clues for identifying where undated portraits were made. Over time, she began to see “patterns in the patterns”: each studio featured distinctive surfaces. What started as a dating method became a deeper attention to the floors themselves—their intensity, their abstraction, and their quiet role in shaping Brady’s photographs.
Brady Studio Floor Pattern #1, Kodak Metallic Print on Aluminum, 24 x 20 inches, 2012
Brady Studio Floor Pattern #2, Kodak Metallic Print on Aluminum, 24 x 20 inches, 2012
Brady Studio Floor Pattern #13, Kodak Metallic Print on Aluminum, 24 x 20 inches, 2012

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