Daily #20

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Daily #20

2012

Thomas Demand (German, born 1964)

To make Daily #20, Thomas Demand first used his cell phone to capture a snapshot of a cup on a sill. He used that snapshot as the basis for a life-size model, which he painstakingly crafted from colored paper. After completing the paper model, he photographed it. The work you see here is a picture derived from a picture. Yet it is also a photograph of a real object—the paper sculpture. Daily #20 is the product of the artist’s thoughtful, earnest labor, but at the same it confronts us with the banality of a world awash in photographs.

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Object Details

Title:

Daily #20
From the series Dailies

Date:

2012

Artist:

Thomas Demand (German, born 1964)

Medium:

Dye transfer print

Dimensions:

Image: 21 1/16 × 27 inches (53.5 × 68.6 cm) Sheet: 21 3/8 × 27 1/4 inches (54.3 × 69.2 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper, 2013

Accession Number:

2013-132-1

Geography:

Possibly made in Berlin, Germany, Europe Possibly made in Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America

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