Folded and Crushed (Toned) 77

2017

Folded and Crushed (Toned) 77, 2017. Amanda Means (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print, toned; image: 50.8 x 50.8 cm (20 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amanda Means and Jayne H. Baum Gallery 2022.126 Amanda Means’s Folded and Crushed pieces are made in the darkroom without a camera. Means scores gelatin silver photographic paper on alternate sides, folds it in a fan shape and exposes it to an enlarging light through a number of contrast filters. “A myriad of different effects occur,” says, the artist, “depending on exactly how the paper is scored and folded, how it is exposed, how it is placed in the developer and how it is pulled out.” This photograph is one-of-a-kind and three-dimensional.