Water Glass #3 (Variant 2)

2011

Water Glass #3 (Variant 2), 2011. Amanda Means (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; image: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.); mounted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amanda Means and Jayne H. Baum Gallery 2022.125 In her Water Glass series,Means instead photographs the light that passes through her subject: partially filled water glasses. To make these images, Means pointed a photographic enlarger at a large sheet of photographic paper tacked on the wall. She created a light proof chamber with a powerful lamp at one end and the enlarger lens at the other and placed the water glass in it. This process yielded a large paper negative from which she makes prints. “Most photography represents the reflection of light back from an object’s surface,” explains Amanda Means.