John HILLIARD British, b. 1945
Light Source 1/500 to 1 second, 1971
10 vintage black and white photographs mounted on board
Each: 39 x 50 cm
Overall: 39 x 500 cm
Overall: 39 x 500 cm
Using his camera’s hi-speed shutter speed, Hilliard documents a light bulb incandescing. Presented as a rhythmic serial grid, Hilliard takes as his subject the camera’s function as a recorder of...
Using his camera’s hi-speed shutter speed, Hilliard documents a light bulb incandescing. Presented as a rhythmic serial grid, Hilliard takes as his subject the camera’s function as a recorder of available light.
Exhibitions
1, 2, 3, etc , Progressions numériques dans l'art contemporain, Musée Rollin, Autun, 1983
1, 2, 3, etc , Progressions numériques dans l'art contemporain, Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, 1982
John Hilliard, Kunstverein Köln, Kunsthalle Bremen and Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany, 1983-84. Illustrated
Corps Sublimes, Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France, 2002-03
L'Art au Futur Antérieur, Musée de Grenoble, France, 2004
Literature
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 1972. Illustrated p 43