Sunsilk

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Title

Sunsilk

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Sunsilk was taken by Haruhiko Sameshima in 1991, using a large format, 4 x 5 inch Linhof camera. This black and white photograph is notable for the decorative edge of the image, an effect Sameshima has achieved by using polaroid film rather than a standard black and white negative. The effect is a photographic joke, making reference to the twentieth-century obsession with the image's edge as a kind of proof that the photograph hasn't been cropped or altered. Supermarket surrealismThere is mor...

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Format

Image

Date created

1991

Creator

Haruhiko Sameshima

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/622367

Related subjects

Still life photographs / Cosmetics / Soaps / Abacus / Hands / photographic gelatin / silver / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / toning / Postmodern / Contemporary / Auckland

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